The Maple Syrup Heist The United States has a strategic petroleum reserve maintained by the US Department of Energy. It contains millions of liters of oil in order to prevent an oil shortage during unstable times. We don’t have such a thing in Canada. 🙁 but we do have something called a strategic maple syrup reserve :D, managed… Read More »
ONE of the easiest ways to make money is to seek opportunities where others are complaining about something. There is often a silver lining to every financial problem, and learning how to take advantage of that can be very profitable. 🙂 Here are 4 common financial problems I hear people constantly complain about and my solution to each… Read More »
Whenever someone is to receive a large sum of money they can sometimes choose to either take the entire amount right away, or have it pay out slowly over a long period of time. If someone is injured in a vehicle accident or if they’re injured at work and they are entitled to a $50,000 settlement from their insurance company,… Read More »
This is a guest post by Peter Thompson. He is the founder of the boutique firm GreenWorld Forestry and Farmland Investments. GreenWorld concentrates on offering “real assets”, and greenworldbvi.com have been particularly popular. For a small investor with an adversity to risk it is very difficult to find investments that keep up with real inflation. By real inflation, we… Read More »
New year, new challenges. I will do my best to tackle the six financial goals listed below which are similar in nature to last year’s goals. I’ve also included 2 additional stretch goals. These stretch goals will be super challenging so I don’t except to achieve them but it would be a real bonus if I did :0)… Read More »
Lower Unemployment Last year ended very positive for the Canadian job market. In December we hired 40,000 new workers and the unemployment rate dropped to 7.1%, it’s lowest point in four years! This number affects both confidence in the stock market, and housing prices. Hope we can continue helping our unemployed and under-employed friends in 2013 and get the… Read More »