What a fantastic game over the weekend 🙂 Our household debt to personal disposable income in Canada is around 163% today. In the U.S. the ratio is only 140%. This ratio is greatly affected by the price of homes. The Canadian housing market has done well since the last recession, but home prices in the U.S. have fallen.… Read More »
We have come a long way in society to narrow the wage gap between men and women. We are also seeing more women in executive level positions in large companies 😀 But females are still disproportionately represented in corporate leadership roles 😐 For example, compare the Senior Management team to the other staff members of the company below.… Read More »
The following is a guest post by Jacob, a PhD student in financial planning. Have you ever noticed that the way you “should” do things, according to societal norms, is often the most screwed up backwards way to find success at anything? Consumerism is especially bad in our first world environment. Society encourages you to buy things you… Read More »
Space Is Within Reach Some readers will probably know that one of my long term goals as stated on my “About Me” page is to go into outer space 😀 I haven’t gone up there yet because 3 factors in the past have always kept me grounded 😉 Money: It costs about $200,000 to get into space. Safety: Based… Read More »
Twitter’s Initial Public Offering The micro blogging site Twitter has become a publicly traded company as of Thursday this week. Its price jumped from $26 a share on opening to $48 almost immediately. There is a lot of interest in this hot stock right now. TWTR ended this week at $42 a share. The Twitter IPO raised over… Read More »
In 2003 oil was $30/barrel but today in 2013, it’s about $95/barrel. There are many factors that determine the price of oil like inflation, supply bottle necks, conflicts in the middle east, global economic growth, etc. Some people complain about the high price of oil today because it has tripled over the last decade. I guess it all… Read More »