While the TFSA accounts are very popular that does not mean that they are being embraced or used to the fullest. This week Rob Carrick of the Globe and Mail penned TFSA’s have been a disappointment in getting Canadians to save more. Rob references a recent study published in the Canadian Tax Journal that looked […]
Will retiring baby boomers destroy the stock markets?
It’s a fear or suggestion that we hear repeated quite often. The massive cohort of retiring baby boomers will need to sell their stocks to create income and that will crash the stock markets. Or let’s just say it could cause a slow bleed, taking down or suppressing the stock markets over the coming decades. […]
Weekend Reads: Why the FIRE gang may end up taking my order at Tim Hortons.
FIRE is an acronym for Financial Independence Retire Early, and of course it’s all the rage these days. Good luck to everyone on this front. Those old enough will remember those Freedom 55 commercials from London Life. It was a very successful ad campaign in which the current stressed out ‘worker you’ was transported into […]
The must reads from year one of Cut The Crap Investing.
It has been over a year since I launched this blog, and I promise this is the last kick at that can. Sure I made it through a year without my wife sending me back to work, big deal. 🙂 And speaking of kicking at cans I did write two articles on that one year […]
Living with squirrels, broken down cars and decks that break the bank.
Grab your coffee this is weekend reads and the subject that what could go wrong will go wrong when you own a home and you drive some older vehicles. Got emergency fund? Got squirrels? It was 1 year ago that I left my full time job. Of course that means that I also left my […]
Weekend Reads. Why investors embrace dividend growth.
Yes there can be an ongoing debate as to whether or not ‘dividends matter’. Certainly that’s a personal decision and if an investor makes the dividends matter, then well, they certainly DO matter because that is the investment style that the investor has embraced. If an investor chooses a dividend growth approach all things dividend […]