This week The Financial Blogger listed the 20 Life-Changing Questions for 2012 that you should be asking yourself. Want to know who is making big money through blogging? Dough Roller posted the List of Personal Finance Blogs That Have Sold for 1 Million or More. The Retire Happy Blog wrote a nice post about the…
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Monthly Archives: December 2011
Is Canadian Housing In A Bubble?
Over the next few weeks, I’m going to a series of posts about whether certain asset classes are overvalued. I call it the bubble series. First up: Canadian housing. Over the past decade, real estate has been one of the best performing sectors in Canada, if not the best. There are countless stories of people…
Addictive Purchases
Shopping can be addictive. Everyone knows that there’s shopaholics out there. There’s the larger than life, cartoon style shoppers, who spend all day spending money and never thinking about their actual purchases, or the woman who has 30 too many pairs of shoes, or the guy who buys a new car every 6 months. There’s…
Canadian Finance Carnival #68
Business Money Cone at Money Cone presents Political Contributions of Banks and Credit Unions, saying “Banks, and credit unions to a certain extent, spend a massive amount of money lobbying. Yes that’s your money, that these organizations use for lobbying. Here are some very curious statistics I gathered!” Miranda Marquit at Planting Money Seeds presents…
Friday Links
This week the Retire Happy Blog delved into a tricky question that all parents ask themselves, “Does Giving Kids Money Really Help Them?” Gail Vaz-Oxlade shared a great post that explains what happens When Saving Isn’t Saving. This is certainly a must-read. It’s that time of year when ski trips are at the top of…
Saving Money On Video Games: Steam Sales Edition
Steam is your best friend when it comes to saving money on video games. Steam is an online digital game distributor run by the gaming publisher Valve. Every Holiday, they hold what are affectionately known as “Steam Sales”. These sales are when they start to heavily discount the video games they distribute for the purpose…
Starting To Invest: The Case For Being Conservative
When young people are just starting to invest their money, it’s common to make a few mistakes along the way. I started investing in mutual funds when I was 19, mainly because they were easy to set-up with a pre-authorized purchase plan at my bank. Looking back, I think I made a lot of mistakes…
