Archives

• Nearly Everything I Learned About Investing I Learned From My Father, Revisited
• Dirty Marketing
• A 50% Service Fee!?
• Smells Like Shoe Polish
• Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Meltdowns
• Fear and Respect
• Good Help Is Hard To Find
• Using Credit Card Points Toward RRSPs Revisited
• The Salt Shaker: Winnie-ther-Pooh, Boomer mistakes, and Stock Market Mascots
• Don’t Be Like Ol’ Jim
• Making the Most of Your Charitable Donation
• Saving Money with Limit Orders
• Obtaining Your Canadian Credit Score
• We’re Back… with a Giveaway
• Interview With a Canadian Trade Commissioner: Part IV
• Interview with a Canadian Trade Commissioner: Part III
• Interview With a Canadian Trade Commissioner: Part II
• Interview With a Canadian Trade Commissioner: Part I
• The Salt Shaker: Facebook Down, RESP Book, and Credit Card 2.0
• Do Canadians Understand Their Fuel Consumption?
• The Salt Shaker: Canadian Citizenship and Japanese Lunchbreaks
• Barter Groups and Home Repairs
• The Salt Shaker: ETFs, Carnivals, and Trade Commissioners
• Scholarships, Bursaries, and Used Books
• Are 60% of Canadians Really Living Paycheck to Paycheck?
• BOJ Intervenes in the F/X Market
• Rice Field Art and Your Portfolio
• The Salt Shaker
• Watching Out for Credit Card Fraud
• The Carry Trade and Exchange Rates
• Supply and Demand
• What is the Carry Trade?
• Weekend Reading
• Spending Can Be Good
• Do It Yourself
• Welcome New Readers
• Re-Post: Inquiring Minds Get Paid
• Re-Post: Gender Imbalance and Chinese Savings Rate
• Weekend Reading
• Free Credit Report: A Follow-Up
• How Does One Repeat Success?
• Another RBC Direct Investing RRSP Update
• Weekend Reading
• The Know Your Mechanic Rule
• A Few Negotiation Strategies
• The Audit – Part II
• Nearly Everything I Learned about Investing I Learned from My Father
• How Politicians are like Soccer Players
• Blog Updates
• The Audit – Part I
• Is Consumption Tax in Japan on the Rise?
• Perception and Human Capital
• Weekend Reading
• Dollar Cost Averaging
• Free Credit Reports: A Walkthrough
• Welcome, Mr. Kan
• Changes to Canadian Citizenship
• Change Cards… Not Accounts
• RBC Direct Investing RRSP Update
• Use Sink Funds for Bills
• Weekend Reading
• Raising the Age of Insured Drivers
• Mortgage Lenders Not Renewing
• Gender Imbalance and Chinese Savings Rate
• Beware of Falling Lemmings
• Changes to Canada Savings Bonds
• Strip Bond Basics
• A Second Credit Card, Part 1.5
• Update on Holding U.S. in D.I. RRSPs
• Those Pesky Housewives
• No Market-Linked GICs in Self-Directed Plans
• Maple/Greenback Conversions within RRSPs
• Japan’s Debt Problem
• The Bluefin Battle
• An Update… and Announcement
• Not Just for Kids
• When Pre-Approved Credit is Good
• Inquiring Minds Get Paid
• Canadian Tax Treaties
• Post Comments
• A Look at the WestJet MasterCard
• Lessons From Aesop
• Foreign Content Mondays
• Switching Insurance
• A Simple Plan
• Deductions are Savings
• Sending Money Home
• Instant Gratification
• The Best Action may be Inaction
• A Primer to Credit Scores and Reports
• Review of OpenOffice Part 1
• Survivorship of Actively Managed Funds
• Cash Back Cards and Contributions
• Use Credit Card Points toward RRSPs etc.