The big drama this week is in Washington as both political parties are fighting over whether the debt ceiling should be raised. At stake are all the various financial obligations of the US government: Social Security payments, government worker wages, interest payments on debt etc. If the ceiling isn’t raised in time, then the government [...]
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One of the links below discusses how expensive houses are. I like my house, but when I think of all the money we have to put into the basement (it’s a complete disaster down there) and a new garage, it is a bit discouraging. We’re going to be mortgage-free next year and while I had [...]
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Pooled Registered Pension Plans (PRPP) were first announced by the Conservatives during the last election campaign. As is my custom, I ignored it since most campaign promises never see the light of day after the election. Now that the Conservatives have a majority government and recently issued more information on PRPPs, I thought it would [...]
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I’ve been having trouble finding time for posting lately – work, holidays, exercise, and the Tour de France have all been taking up a lot of my time. The good news is that I’ve been exercising a ton and I feel like I’m getting into decent shape. This morning I weighed in at 174.5 pounds [...]
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My wife & I have two young kids, age three and four. One family activity we’d like to get into is camping. As in sleeping in a tent, campfire, cook your own food on a Coleman camping stove. Of course, not everyone likes camping, but I think it’s a lot of fun. Camping is much [...]
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I’ve been on holiday this week and my best intentions of doing a second (and better) post this week as well as making some progress on the RESP book 2nd edition were thwarted by an illness. Oh well. I’m feeling better now and the holiday is not over, so hopefully I can salvage something. MoneySense [...]
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I’ve been spending some time recently updating the Canadian discount brokerage comparison which contains lots of information about all the Canadian discount brokerages. I decided to re-test the average wait time (when phoning) to make sure the shortcuts were up to date as well as the wait times. I thought it would be interesting to [...]
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Mike from the Financial Blogger has written an ebook about dividend investing. It’s a pretty good resource which explains why dividend investing is a good idea, how to select stocks and how to get started with the whole process. I might consider a book on the same topic in the future, but I can tell [...]
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Time once again to update the big stock picking contest. The great news is that I’m not in last place! My specific pick was to short the gold ETF CGL. What is CGL you ask? It is the Claymore Gold Bullion ETF which trades on the TSX and only invests in gold. Check out my [...]
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