Lots of great submissions this week. Nice to see some new people submitting their posts and sharing them with the Canadian Finance Blog readers! Also, today is the last day to leave a comment for a chance to win a copy of Master Your Money Management! Budgeting Barb Friedberg at Can You Really Afford That?…
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Monthly Archives: October 2010
The 1929 Stock Market Crash
The following excerpt about the 1929 stock market crash is from Understanding Wall Street, written by Jeffrey B. Little and Lucien Rhodes and published by McGraw-Hill. The “Roaring Twenties” came to a quiet halt on September 3, 1929. The steadily rising stock market, with its well-publicized gains, especially late in the decade, seemed to confirm…
Friday Links
There are only three days left to leave a comment for a chance to win a copy of Master Your Money Management! Canadian Couch Potato introduces The Cheapskate’s Portfolio. Money Help For Christians shows how to use financial ratios to gauge your financial health. Canadian Capitalist tells us why he prefers US-listed ETFs. Financial Highway…
How Investing in Gold Can Save You From an Economic Crisis
When the economic crisis first slammed the United States, many related it to a country specific problem. However, the crisis quickly spread around the world, finally hitting Canada in 2009. In fact, January and February of 2009 were terrible months for Canadians as more than 240,000 workers found themselves unemployed and Canadian households reported an…
Exploring a Financial Fast
There are always times in our lives where we have to scrape by with just a few dollars to spare. Whether it is sudden unemployment, or moving into your first apartment after college, it is often surprising at how far you can get by on just a few dollars. Just the other day I was…
Debt Can Be A Problem For The Baby Boomers Retirement Plans
Over the next 20 years, baby boomers will be making one of the biggest transitions in life which is why retirement is a really hot topic these days. In my retirement workshops, it is very common to see baby boomers who are really concerned about retirement because they feel like they do not have enough…
Book Review – Master Your Money Management
Master Your Money Management: How to manage the advisors who work for you, is the second book I’m reviewing in the “Master Your” series by The Knowledge Bureau. The previous title, Master Your Taxes, was written by Evelyn Jacks. For Master Your Money Management, The Knowledge Bureau used the expertise of Jim Ruta, who began…
