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finances

Have You Made Your Financial Plan For 2010?

December 21, 2009 · 4 comments

in December, Financial New Year, discipline, estates, finances, financial planning, goals, holidays, lifestyle design, money decisions, networth, portfolio, wealth protection, wealthbuilding

It’s a good time to draw up some financial New Year’s resolutions if you haven’t yet.  Sure – don’t call them New Year’s resolutions if you don’t want to – it’s a financial plan for 2010 that I’m really talking about.
Although we are still in the thick of the holiday season, take a quiet day [...]

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Getting Motivated About Tackling Credit Card Debt

August 9, 2009 · 10 comments

in budgets, credit cards, debt, discipline, finances, paycheck, portfolio, spending

To truly become free – and stay free – from consumer debt, it takes a strong shift in mindset, akin to the force of a tsunami (as my blogging colleague Baker from ManVsDebt has creatively put it).
What’s the point of paying off all those credit cards if you’re just going to end up racking them [...]

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4 Tips for Having Conversations with Parents (and Others) About Money

June 12, 2009 · 4 comments

in behavioral finance, emotions, finances, financial planning, money decisions, money lessons, psychology

It may not be part of the old adage about religion and politics, but money still has the ability to divide and get people worked up.  Perhaps it is the hugely abstract idea(s) behind our physical use of money that cause(s) this problem.  Money is linked to the ideas of “value” and “worth.” How much [...]

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8 Ways To Prosper No Matter What Happens to The Economy

March 30, 2009 · 10 comments

in finances, recession, wealthbuilding

Instead of tuning into the news each night or day for more updates on what’s going wrong with the US economy and now foreign economic relations in particular, rest assured that nothing you can think about will change whatever is going to happen post-G20 on April 2 in London, England, when the top leaders of [...]

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Economics, Finance for Canadian Students Going to School in the US

October 25, 2008 · 1 comment

in Canadian, finances, students

Congratulations!  You’ve won a SSHRC or other scholarship from some Canadian entity in order to pursue your education in the U.S… the only problem now is…. your money is worth up to 30% less than its Canadian face value.  Nice!  You didn’t see that coming last year when we were able to solidly out-buy the [...]

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