This true story I found in an online journal depicts the magic of compounding and the impact behavior has on our finances. Grace Groner and Richard Fuscone Grace Groner was orphaned at age 12. She never married. She never drove a car. She lived most of her life alone in a one-bedroom house and worked her whole career… Read More »
Sunshine Blogger Award Nomination I’ve been recently nominated for a blogging award by roadmap2retire. Thanks R2R. 🙂 The person being tagged has to share some information about themselves, based on the questions posed by the person nominating. Let’s begin. 1. Name the top three experiences from your past, that help form who you are today. In the past… Read More »
Economics is the only profession where you can gain great eminence without ever being right. Remember earlier this year when just about everyone anticipated higher interest rates, but then the Bank of Canada slashed rates instead? If mainstream economic predictions were right interest rates would be a lot higher by now, our wages would have grown to keep… Read More »
Achieving Blog Notoriety So I Googled my blog for fun, to see if it shows up on the front page. Well in doing so I have discovered something else that’s quite interesting. It appears people on the internet who aren’t bloggers have been talking about my site. 😀 So I’ve decided to share some of those comments with you guys today. I’m too… Read More »
In 2002 I didn’t have any money of my own yet. But today, I have over $750,000 in gross investments. Sometimes I feel like I don’t value money as much as I used to. I guess a lot can change in 12 years. My perception of money Do you ever get the feeling that the more you learn about the world around… Read More »
I started this blog in 2010 and have written a lot on how I’m investing for the future. But I’ve just realized I haven’t written much about my financial experiences prior to 2010. You probably won’t learn anything new from this post today but for anyone who might be interested, this entry is about how my road to… Read More »