My first post went up on MintLife this week. To introduce Mint users to Canada, I contributed Chequing Or Checking? How Canadian And U.S. Personal Finances Differ. Squawkfox finds 50 gift ideas from the dollar store. Wealth Web Gurus looks at another emerging market boom. Canadian Couch Potato makes a great analogy with Couch Potato…
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Monthly Archives: December 2010
Use a Credit Card for Overseas Spending this Holiday Season
People are often so concerned with getting the best exchange rates when travelling abroad that they convert too much of their money before leaving or waste time and effort looking for the lowest rates upon arrival. However, these efforts may only serve to negate the benefits of getting a good exchange rate to begin with….
Mint.com Canadian Review
Alan’s Take On Mint.com Just a little while ago, Mint.com officially launched in Canada. Originally only in the United States, Mint.com is a finance tracking service offered to consumers that have a hard time manually tracking their income, expenses, and budgets. They do this by associating your Mint.com account with your bank accounts, your credit…
Are You A Bull Or Bear When It Comes To Dividend Stocks?
For the past few years, it seems everyone loves dividend stocks. Dividend stocks and dividend mutual funds seem to be such a standard staple when it comes to investing and when you look at the past long term performance, one can argue the popularity is justified. Reasons for dividend stocks For past 20 years I…
Mint.com In Canada – An Interview With Aaron Patzer
We’re here with Aaron Patzer to discuss Mint’s official Canadian launch that happened on December 1st. Thanks Aaron for taking the time to answer some questions from me and the Canadian Finance Blog readers. Tom: For the Canadians that are hearing about Mint for the first time, can you tell them what you believe Mint…
Canadian Finance Carnival #14
Thanks for all the great submissions. Check back tomorrow for my interview with Aaron Patzer about the Canadian launch of Mint! Budgeting Jessica at MomVesting presents Emergency Funds: The 411 About Your 911 Account, saying “Keep your financial world safe by establishing an emergency fund, which can act like insurance for a job loss, accident,…
Resume Psychology
The following excerpt on resume psychology is from Fearless Resumes, written by Marky Stein and published by McGraw-Hill. Psychologists say that we “know” in a split second (about 1/16 second, to be exact) whether anything that comes into our environment is going to help or threaten our instinct to survive. This split-second test of whether…
