Short Hands, Long Pockets: The Informed Guide to Debt and Spending (Eddie's Reddies S.).

Eddie Hobbs (born 1962) is a television presenter and Irish lobbyist. He presented the RTÉ show Rip-Off Republic in 2005, a show preoccupied with perceived high personal taxes, corporate profits and cartels/monopolies in Ireland. Prior to this, Hobbs presented the television show Show Me the Money, where he helped various ordinary people, from farmers to hairdressers, to improve their finances. He has also presented a three-part programme, 30 Things to do with your SSIA, in which he gives a list of ideas for spending the money held in a Special Savings Incentive Account. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Year 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Lobbying is the practice of private advocacy with the goal of influencing a governing body, in order to ensure that an individuals or organizations point of view is represented in the government. ... Radio Telefís Éireann (RTÉ; Irish for Radio and Television of Ireland) is the national publicly-funded broadcaster of Ireland. ... Rip-Off Republic was a RTÉ television show which highlights the cost of living in Ireland. ... Show Me the Money is an Irish television show where Eddie Hobbs helps people with their finances. ... A Special Saving Incentive Account (SSIA) is a type of interest-bearing account in the Republic of Ireland. ...

An outspoken populist critic of the vested interests in Ireland, especially the producer groups who "control the country", Hobbs has often repeated that "There's one game in town: development." He speaks out against Jumbo mortgages and picks apart the arguments presented by the vested interests who wish to maintain the status quo, to whom he acts as financial consultant. Populism is a political ideology or rhetorical style that holds that the common person is oppressed by the elite in society, which exists only to serve its own interests, and therefore, the instruments of the State need to be grasped from this self-serving elite and instead used for the... A jumbo mortgage is a mortgage with a loan amount above the industry standard definition of conventional conforming loan limits. ... A consultant (from the Latin consultare meaning to discuss from which we also derive words such as consul and counsel) is a professional who provides expert advice in a particular area of expertise such as accountancy, the environment, technology, the law, human resources, marketing, medicine, finance, public affairs, communication, engineering...

In Show Me the Money he repeatedly advised that property prices in Ireland are only going one way - down - and strongly advised against residential investment property purchase in Ireland.In 2007 property prices started to reverse. Hobbs owns two homes in Ireland, reputedly, worth over €3 million. Show Me the Money is an Irish television show where Eddie Hobbs helps people with their finances. ... The property market in the Republic of Ireland in 2007 is controversially described by some as the Irish Property Bubble. ...

Hobbs was a non-executive director in the financial services firm Taylor Asset Management, which went bust when its founder Tony Taylor fled to the UK, following the theft of clients' funds in 1996 uncovered by an investigation lead by Hobbs after he left the Taylor Group. (Hobbs himself was never implicated in any wrongdoing and in 2007 he was exonerated by the Irish High Court and praised by the presiding judge for showing "efficiency and determination and for not standing idly" when he pursued Taylor's activities from 1995 to 1996.) Hobbs continued to be both a financial adviser and a seller of financial software to both financial intermediaries and big financial service companies such as Eagle Star.

It has been reported that the printing of the 9 September 2005 issue of the Irish current affairs magazine Village was halted after communication with Eddie Hobbs concerning an article on him. Village magazine is an Irish current affairs magazine founded and edited by Vincent Browne. ...

Eddie Hobbs was awarded Honorary Patronage of TCD's University Philosophical Society in November 2005. He is affiliated with the financial services firm 3Q. He was appointed by the Irish Government as a Director of the National Consumer Agency in 2007 having served on its interim board since 2005. Trinity College, Dublin TCD, corporately designated as the Provost, Fellows and Scholars of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, was founded in 1592 by Elizabeth I, and is the only constituent college of the University of Dublin, Irelands oldest university. ... The University Philosophical Society (commonly known as The Phil) was founded in 1853, although it claims two predecessor societies. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

During the run up to the Irish General Election 2007, Eddie and his colleague Matt Cooper presented a political programme called Polls Apart on Irish TV station TV3, in which they interview the main Irish Political Parties' leaders about what they intend to do after the election, if they were to be deemed elected into government. This article is about the general election in the Republic of Ireland. ... Matt Cooper is a journalist and presenter in Ireland. ... TV3 Ireland is the sole commercial terrestrial television channel in the Republic of Ireland. ... There are a number of political parties in the Republic of Ireland, and coalition governments are common. ...

External links

• Ireland Business News

It has been widely reported that Eddie is the most irritating individual in Irish history, as voted by national ballot on popular television programme "Who's the boss?" on Ireland's national television station RTE.

Eddie Hobbs also owns the largest private collection of Seat Ibiza's in Ireland (5) It has been widely reported that Eddie is the most irritating individual in Irish history, as voted by national ballot on popular television programme "Who's the boss?" on Ireland's national television station RTE.