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Multiple Incomes – 2013 Update

Last year I wrote a post about the power of having multiple income streams. I advocated for the compound income phenomenon, which I think is very important for building wealth. If you’re not familiar with that article I recommend reading it first. So far using multiple incomes have continuously benefited my personal finances so I’m pretty confident about this theory 😉… Read More »

Nothing Gold Can Stay

The popular Robert Frost poem is a great reminder that financial rallies cannot be sustained indefinitely, especially in the resource sector.  About a year ago the price for one ounce of gold was about $1,800. Today that same piece is only worth about $1,300. As a result the world’s largest gold company, Barrick Gold Corp, lost half of… Read More »

Adapting to Create Wealth

To become rich we should try to maximize our earnings and minimize our expenses. Here are two simple ways to do it by adapting. First, on the earnings side, we can take advantage of unfair market forces to increase our investment potential. For example Canada’s telecommunication sector is an oligopoly with over 90% of the wireless market owned… Read More »