The following is a guest post from Barbara Friedberg. She endured a much more arduous moving ordeal than I did this summer. Check out the 5 lessons she learned and then head over to Barbara Friedberg Personal Finance to read more. While you’re there, download her free 20 Minute Guide to Investing. Thanks Barb! 5…
Starting today, there’s a new financial resource for Canadians out there. It’s called Finizi. Basically, Finizi is a free online service that allows financial institutions to compete for your business. At this time they are only offering GICs, but there are plans in the works to offer competitive bidding on rates for car loans and…
Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! ~Andre Gide Have you ever felt like you were in a rut? No matter how hard you try to shake things up, start fresh or come up with innovative solutions to what’s bugging you, you just seem…
I’m quite late with my August collection of articles thanks to a busy couple of weeks moving. I’ll write more about our experiences next week. Thanks to those who wished us well and to those who continued to read/check in/comment at Balance Junkie during my extended absence. We’re still settling in, but I’ll try to…
Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights. ~Pauline R. Kezer My computer will be packed and we will probably be en route for stage one of the move by the time you read this. It’s unfortunate that this geographical move is coinciding with more historical…
I’ve been pretty distracted lately with the whole house-hunting/moving to a new city thing, so I haven’t been able to follow the financial world as closely as usual. In spite of being out of town and preoccupied a fair bit in April, I was able to dig up some real gems for this month’s round-up….
Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them… they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight. ~ Orison Swett Marden Do you have financial goals…
So March has come to an end, and with it, the first quarter of 2011. This month brought plenty of earth-moving events for the economy, the markets, and for me personally. We’ve had several long-standing governments fall, as well as upheaval in many others. We watched our Japanese friends struggle with a mammoth earthquake, tsunami,…
