Investing in Air Canada Bonds Don’t expect to eat anything fancy when you’re flying because you’ll just be getting plane food. In last week’s blog post it showed that I had over $7,000 of cash saved up. I usually don’t like to have idle money doing nothing. But it’s hard to decide what to buy when everything appears to be overbought lately. However as… Read More »
Canada Says Farewell to Gold One upon a time most currencies were backed by gold. But in 1971 president Richard Nixon took the U.S. off the gold standard switching to a floating currency instead so its Central Bank can exert more influence over the currency, and other countries followed suit. Today, everyone uses fiat currency and gold is no… Read More »
Wall Street Cuts S&P 500 Estimates One reason investors have made so much money in the last 7 years is because the stock market has done well since the great recession. The total annual returns for the S&P 500 stock index have been positive every year from 2009 to 2015 inclusive. But recent earnings reports suggest that the bull… Read More »
Last week I visited Cuba. I went with friends and family and we were all Havana great time. Unfortunately the hotel we stayed at, like most places around the area, doesn’t have Wi-Fi so I did not use the internet for a whole week. Last week’s blog posts were scheduled in advance. I had a great time staying in Varadero and visiting… Read More »
The Fruit Algebra Puzzle This brain teaser is known to drive people bananas. It’s unclear who made the original image, but versions of it have been circulating around social media recently. The answer to the equation on the bottom isn’t as straight forward as some people might think. But I think most readers of Freedom 35 Blog are… Read More »
Who Would You Tell? Awhile ago you guys were asked who you would tell if you won the lottery. Here are the results. Thanks to everyone who voted. 🙂 Roughly a quarter of readers said they will keep the secret to themselves. I happen to be in this category as well. But I would tell my spouse if… Read More »