If you talk to boomers these days you will inevitably find at least a few in your group or even more than a few whose adult grown children are living with them. This fact is undeniable. The reasons why are the subject of many discussions at both the Provincial and Federal level. The financial crisis…
When most Baby Boomers read the news that Trudeau plans to hike spending across the board in an effort to stimulate the economy they are excited and satisfied with the performance by the fledgling P.M. He is after all trying to make sure that we have continued growth in the next few years and that…
Since the yes vote by the U.K to leave the European Union, there has been little talk of the problems faced by Greece and other countries that seemed to dominate the financial news cycles over the past couple of years. Instead the troubles seem to be coming from Italy’s banks that are facing a crisis…
Most of today have a least one and usually several rewards cards that we keep in our ever expanding wallet or purse. Grocery store cards, the many gas station cards, and of course, the granddaddy of them all, the Air Miles card. For the most part we keep accumulating the points and miles with no…
When you think about the absolute basics of accounting have largely remained unchanged in the last 100 years no less the last 10. Identifying incoming money or revenue and calculating the outgoing expenses of a single individual or a large multinational the basic tasks remain the same. That is about the only thing that has…
When on vacation you have enough to worry about without having to constantly stress about whether or not your finances are safe as well. There are many ways to protect yourself when travelling in order to prevent yourself from losing control of your money or even your identity. One very important factor to remember…
In this day and age of 24/7 connectivity and social media mania most people are cognizant of the fact that there are people around the world who spend every waking moment trying to figure out ways of parting you with your hard earned money in any way possible. One way of doing this is…
For most individuals the only relationship they have to their credit score is when they try to obtain something on credit and are forced to hear what the number is from the retailer deciding whether or not they are a viable risk for the extension of that credit. Most people realize that by paying your…
The major Canadian banks have decided that due to falling revenues from commodities, the impact of interest rates that are at historic lows and a lack of substantial loan growth among other factors that it is time to once again raise certain banking fees in order to further grow their ever expanding profits. With…
With the advent of more flexible rules governing how we perform our assigned tasks from our employers the option of either working from home on a part time of even full time basis has become a very contentious issue. With many companies choosing to allow employees to work from home there has begun a debate…
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