Thanks to everyone that submitted their posts to the Canadian Finance Carnival. Lot’s of good entries this week! Budgeting Mike at Green Panda Treehouse presents Do You Live Within Your Means?, saying “How realistic is your spending compared to your income?” Debt and Credit Craig at Free From Broke presents What’s My Credit Score Made…
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Monthly Archives: October 2010
Real and Nominal Rates of Return
The following excerpt is from The Bond Book, written by Annette Thau and published by McGraw-Hill. The terms “real” rate and “nominal” rate are sometimes used to refer to rates of return on bonds. These terms represent a method of adjusting bond yields for the rate of inflation. The nominal rate measures the actual dollars…
Friday Links
Just wanted to mention that Money Crashers now have a Top Personal Finance Blogs list that ranks many of the finance blogs based on a calculation of a few numbers like Google page rank, rss subscribers and twitter followers. So be sure to check it out! PT Money lists 5 money moves to make for…
Top 15 Credit Card Blunders
Credit cards are a necessary evil in the modern world. You need cards to book a flight, make reservations, pay bills, and to build credit. On the flip side, they can also devastate your credit rating if you are not careful. Luckily, all you need to do to avoid problems is follow a few simple…
How to Watch Cheap and Free TV in Canada
One day, when I was about 12 years old, I was watching TV with my dad on a lazy Sunday afternoon. The show we were watching ended so we switched to the television guide to see what was on. At one point, we saw a good TV show on one of the channels we didn’t…
20 Tips for Saving Money on Groceries
Groceries are something that we spend a lot of money on each year. We can’t avoid buying food so it’s important for us to learn how to save money at the grocery store. The following twenty tips can get you started saving money on groceries: 1. Buy in-season fresh produce. It is typically less expensive…
Carnival of Personal Finance #278 – Thanksgiving Edition
Welcome to the Thanksgiving edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance! Readers and bloggers from the U.S. may be thinking that it’s a little early for Thanksgiving, but here in Canada it’s Thanksgiving Day! To help celebrate, I’ve added some Canadian Thanksgiving facts from Wikipedia throughout the carnival. If you haven’t visited Canadian Finance Blog…
