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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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Outlook for Canadian Stocks in 2010

December 15, 2009 · 9 comments

in Canadian, Canadian economy, Financial New Year, S&P/TSX, TSX, financial planning, income trusts, investing, market trends, stocks

How well will the Canadian stock market do in 2010? If the U.S. sneezes again, will Canada catch another cold?  If there is any fallout or a double-dip U.S. recession owing to defaults on payment-option ARM mortgages, will it send global markets into another fiscal tailspin as we saw in October 2008?
By most estimates, Canada [...]

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Reasons You Will Need Extra Cash For Finishing Your Master’s or PhD Thesis

September 22, 2009 · 1 comment

in education, emergencies, emergency fund, financial planning, grad school, savings, students

Planning your graduate career, or just looking ahead to being on the home stretch and getting that thesis out of the way? Don’t just count on the funding you might get from your program or teaching/research assignment. Writing a thesis is the perfect situation for which you should have a solid emergency fund in place.
Your [...]

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What To Do With Your Money Just In Case Trends Forecaster Gerald Celente Is Right

August 3, 2009 · 12 comments

in US debt, US dollar, US economy, economy, emergencies, financial planning, hyperinflation, survival, wealth protection

N.B., Acknowledging the fact that some Americans probably think Gerald Celente is a nut – those who are familiar with him at all – just as, for many people, Peter Schiff is seen as an extremist or nut – I think that, given their analytic track records – which you have to admit, have been [...]

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Michael Jackson Money Management – Just Budget!

June 26, 2009 · 6 comments

in budgets, financial planning, money decisions, money lessons, money management, money mistakes, wealth

They Told Me Don’t You Ever Come Around Here
Don’t Wanna Pay It Back, You Better Disappear
The Numbers’ In The Red And You Owe More Than You Earn
So Budget, Just Budget
[2nd Verse]
You Better Sing, You Better Do What You Can
Don’t Wanna See No Shrink, Don’t Meet the Repo Man
You Wanna Be Young, Better Save What You [...]

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ABC’s UN-BROKE: Personal Finance For Dummies, or Useful Infotainment?

May 30, 2009 · 7 comments

in financial education, financial planning, news and updates

Did you see UN-BROKE: What You Need To Know About Money On ABC Friday night?  Starring Seth Green, Samuel L. Jackson and Christian Slater, the one-time special purports to help educate us (or those who don’t know) about personal finance.  We can call it the celebrification of personal finance.
I didn’t catch it on TV, but [...]

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The Real Costs of Graduate School

May 18, 2009 · 18 comments

in economy, education, financial planning, grad school

So, we’re in a prolonged recession.  Jobs for this year’s college graduates are supposedly all going to be at a standstill, causing new grads to have to settle for working in a field other than the one they did their Bachelor’s in or — gasp! — even taking a pay cut to work in their [...]

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