The Rupee Room

Dogecoin: To the moon or just moonshine

Let’s talk about Dogecoin. Yes, that annoying cryptocurrency whose memes keep popping up on your twitter feed and which seems to have a cult like following among high profile celebrities and Gen-Z traders chasing their get-rick-quick dreams. The joke coin that few had heard of until recently, came out of nowhere and went from a few fractions of a penny to now a few cents a pop. Not exactly to the moon, yet, but who knowns what a stream of absolutely mental memes and Elon Musk tweets can do to the price of DOGE. In this episode you will find out what is Dogecoin, what’s all the fuss about, and whether or not you should invest in an altcoin the likes of Elon Musk are obsessed with.

Financial infidelity: Cheating by any other name

Is your partner sneaking behind your back? When a spouse finds out their partner is having an illicit love affair, the impact on the relationship can be devastating. But a clandestine extra-marital affair isn't the only kind of infidelity that can put the kibosh on a relationship. There are other types of secret affairs whose impact could be just as ruinous. Ask anyone who woke up to that unromantic surprise about their partner carrying a secret debt for years. In this episode you will find out what is financial double-dealing in a relationship, what are its tell-tale sings, and how to handle it.

You may be sued: Is your fortune insulated?

You don't have to be a celebrity, a business baron, or a media tycoon to get sued for millions of dollars. Lawsuits, whether brought on flimsy grounds or legitimate reasons, could potentially claim HNWI's assets and erode wealth. If you have significant business or personal assets, you may want to take some pre-emptive measures to throw a protective ring around your wealth and head off the hazard of a lawsuit. In this episode you will find out if your fortune is insulated as we look at HOW to protect your assets against the risk of a lawsuit.

5 personal-finance ideas busted by the COVID-19 crisis

Let’s be honest, we have all become complacent and casual in our personal finance habits. However, the pandemic and its financial fallout have given us just the jolt many of us needed to snap out of our old financial ways and make tweaks to our approach to money management. In the new financially challenging environment that we are all in, some outmoded attitudes towards money no longer make sense. In this episode we’re going to look at five ideas about money that the coronavirus pandemic has changed forever.

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The Rupee Room is a show that tells stories emanating from a chaotic canvas of thorny issues that revolve around the common theme of money. Each episode looks at a new financial wrinkle and offers jargon- and judgement-free insight acquired over the years working as a financial journalist. There will be personal finance ideas, views from the investment world, and occasionally a lighthearted piece on things tied to money rather tangentially. Everyone looking to keep their money in their pockets can take something from The Rupee Room Podcast. Listeners across the income spectrum could glean wisdom about saving more, spending smarter, preserving wealth, and, hopefully, are able to confront their fears about money. As the British-Irish actor and comedian Spike Milligan once said: money doesn’t buy happiness but it sure as hell improves the quality of your misery.