From the monthly archives:
paid off $100 of student loan
obtained a U.S. credit card (I’m from Canada) for emergency purposes and credit-building
paid off and lowered Canadian VISA credit card limit by $500
invested $700 into my DRIPs
bought $1500 of dividend-paying stock*
increased overall networth by $2800
increased January quarter cashflow by about $18.00
increased monthly cashflow by $3.50
*includes managing to buy Toronto-Dominion Bank [...]
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With all the new recent serious talk again of a Great Depression (or just a “Depression”) now that confidence seems to have totally dissipated in regard to the economic stimulus projects (not that they won’t work – but just that they might not work soon enough, and the ensuing debt they create will have its [...]
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We all want to know when the market is going to bottom. Well, right now it’s definitely at SOME kind of bottom. So start dipping your toes in if you’ve not been paying attention for a while (buy some of the Canadian banks that Obama likes so much) – there are great sales out there [...]
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I may not have to worry about a layoff, but I’m still losing money as a result of dividend and distribution cuts. The last two months have made it clear why one doesn’t want to get too attached to any single source of income. So even as I’m making money from these stocks, I need [...]
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Well, I’ve been thinking about money more often lately. In fact, the last year in particular I’ve really been focused (in part the effect of which is the existence of this blog) on making MORE money and being more effective with it. For better or worse money is the set of “wheels” that move you [...]
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Well, in case you don’t know yet, late yesterday and then all day today the stock market crash fell quite a bit MORE below its November lows (we’re definitely in new territory now) to close at 7365.67. We’re now back at 1997 levels. I’m not sure that that means that 25 years or so of [...]
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One of the latest Jim Rogers videos. Like Peter Schiff, he says “get out of the dollar now”. Rogers has been buying Chinese Yen for the last year. He owns about 15 different currencies, just not US.
“Do prepare yourselves, because there are going to be spectacular opportunities in the markets as these currencies unravel in [...]
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