Guilt Free Money
I tend to obsess. Not in the melodramatic sense of the word; I don’t obsess about my thighs or about my complexion or about whether Tommy Jenkins will ask me to the winter box social. What I mean to...
View ArticleHow I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Market
Maybe it’s the Chianti talking, but I’ve got something to say about investing: get your plan sorted out because I have exactly zero interest in paying for your retirement. Every day you decide not to...
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RRSP First Principles
[I am, if not my worst critic, at least my most diligent, and so I am now quite convinced that my last missive on the subject of personal finance was sorely over-ambitious. There was enough there for...
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RRSP Implementation
So okay, you’ve got RRSPs basically figured out. The problem is that even once you understand that an RRSP is basically just a license to invest in whatever without paying taxes (at least, for now)...
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So You Want to Buy a House
With RRSP season out of the way for the time being, and with all my money spent on the recent cruise it seemed somehow fitting to talk about things I have already spent my money on for a while. Since...
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No Money Down
[This really isn't an article for one person, but there's one person out there who will think it is about her, and in a way it is - if she weren't talking about this then maybe I wouldn't be thinking...
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Mathematiques Roadshow
I don’t think it’s very normal of me, at the tender young age of 28, to enjoy the Antiques Roadshow as much as I do. I tend to explain that I like it for very much the same reasons that I like books...
View ArticleCritical Thinking Moment
Everyone has seen the commercial where the progressive insurance guy tells you that people switching to progressive saved an average of $332 on their car insurance. Except that you see similar...
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Hello Vancouver! Briefly!
A quick note, to any Vancouverites that may be interested, that I will be in town on Wednesday to speak at the FIRST 2008 conference. The title of the talk is “The Most Important Thing – How Mozilla...
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