It was bad enough when all we had to worry about tuning out were traffic jams, television sets, commercials, ringing telephones and doorbells. Sometime over the last ten years, though, gradually, we gained an additional set of layers of “noise” to deal with: the public cellphone conversation, the instant message, flashing ads in our elevators [...]
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Extreme frugal living: don’t eat. Don’t spend any money! Security-driven individuals like me spend a lot of our time planning to make sure we never have to go without or that we’ll never be caught without money when we really need it. This is the whole idea behind building an emergency fund. In the past [...]
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In this past week’s radio show, Peter Schiff seems to have taken a turn from his earlier, steadfast resistance to everyone’s recommendations and support he run for US Senate. For the first time now, Schiff concedes that he might run for Senate and that he is considering it. Sites like Peter Schiff for Senate 2010 [...]
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Would you invest in a “green energy” mutual fund? How about an “Islam-friendly ETF”? This latter option may sound new but the indexes on which it is based have actually been around for a while, and they are growing at an increasing rate.
This past week, Standard and Poor’s introduced a new TSX 60 index which [...]
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