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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. ~ Mark Twain Update: This article was included in the Carnival of Personal Finance #262 posted at Personal Finance Journey. Thanks! The financial habits of society at [...] Continue reading Financial Wisdom for Father’s Day The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do. ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy As I mentioned in our last update, April is Financial Literacy Month in the United States. In Canada, the Task Force on Financial Literacy has been busy holding consultation meetings in cities across the country. Before I get [...] Continue reading Financial Literacy Update #4 Success will never be a big step taken in the future. Success is a small step taken just now. ~ Jonatan Mårtensson It’s been a while since our last Financial Literacy Update, and there’s been a lot of activity on that front lately. For one thing, April is Financial Literacy month in the States, so a lot of American-based blogs have been covering the topic. Here’s a [...] Continue reading Financial Literacy Update #3 I wasn’t planning on having enough material to do another Financial Literacy Update just one week after the first one, but I received an email last week that I really wanted to bring to your attention. Before I get to that, here are a couple of articles on financial literacy issues that you might want to check out: Jim Yih presents a guest post entitled What [...] Continue reading Financial Literacy Update #2 Before I get to this post, I’d like to thank Larry MacDonald for featuring me in this weekend’s Globe & Mail. I’ve had a number of people asking about the 3% 90 Day GIC that I have from ING Direct. It’s only available as an RRSP GIC. I believe it was part of an RRSP seasonal promotion. It’s still available as of early this morning, [...] Continue reading Financial Literacy Update #1 |
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