Debt Man Walking A 10-Step Investment and Gearing Guide for Generation X

by Brammall, Bruce

• ISBN13: 9780731408351
• ISBN10: 0731408357
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-09-26
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Debt Man Walking is a quirky, funny guide to wealth building through debt leveraging for Generation X; aged approximately 28 - 43. Written by Bruce Brammall, financial expert, Gen Xer and bestselling author of The Power of Property: Securing Your Future Through Real Estate and Investing in Real Estate For Dummies. The book focuses on finance/investing strategies most appropriate for the general risk profile of this generation. Packed with plenty of references to Gen X culture, this is the must-have finance guide for a generation about to enter their prime earning years.

Author Biography

Bruce Brammall is a successful investor, best-selling author, financial adviser, business journalist, columnist... and, by pure luck, a Gen Xer. Now, as Debt Man, he has donned his gearing cape, exited  the phone box and is ready to save his Slacker generation with a clearly articulated 10-step plan to help them supercharge their finances.

Table of Contents

Dedication vii

Acknowledgements ix

About the author xiii

Prologue xvii

Introduction 1

Step 1: Write your own ticket 17

Step 2: Money’s simple rules 33

Step 3: Risky business 53

Step 4: Gen X’s investment edge 75

Step 5: Home: investment central 107

Step 6: Investing: the debt mantra 123

Step 7: Tax, Santa and other little helpers 153

Step 8: Blockbuster budgeting 175

Step 9: Cover your ass(ets) 193

Step 10: Choose your own … neverending story 217

Conclusion 245

Appendix A: The X-Flips 247

Appendix B: 50 investment, gearing and ‘Gen X Rules’ rules 253

Appendix C: Glossary 261

Recommend to a friend 273

Index 275