the Wealthy Canadian

Another exciting week..
First off, three blogs posts that I want to share.  All three are on the same theme, that is on downsizing your lifestyle.  I think that this is an important topic as our wants is what keeps us in debt and on the treadmill (hamster ball?).  These guys are not saying that we [...]

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A book that I had read quite some time ago was Investing for Canadians for Dummies. I thought that I’d give a short review of it.
This book is fairly easy to read for any lay person just starting out. The logical layout starts with a fundamental overview of what investing is. The [...]

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In previous posts I’ve talked about what inflation is and how we measure it. Today I’m going to talk about how we attempt to control inflation.
As we’ve discussed both high and low inflation is bad but luckily there is a happy medium. In 1991 the Bank of Canada and the government decided that somewhere [...]

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Well it’s Blog Action Day today, so I assume that the entire ‘blogosphere’ is talking about the environment. This article will represent my two cents.
Many people believe that the environment is in danger. We are polluting and consuming a great deal of resources. Anybody who lives near an industrial facility probably witnesses [...]

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The Financial Post reported today that Canada is the second least miserable nation in the G7.  Woo hoo, we are not a miserable country!  Merrill Lynch has a Misery Index that looks at a number of economic conditions.  The U.S., always striving to be number one, has done it again… they are the most miserable [...]

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