Now this pathetic blog has yakked at you for the past 18 years (OMG) about having a B&D portfolio. The ‘B’ means balanced. As in maintaining about 60% in growth-oriented equities and the rest in fixed ...

The reason: the downpayment. Amassing the quarter-million needed to buy the average detached in Vancouver, for example, is ...

Meta, the Zuck empire behind Muse says it plans to scale out this thing to a billion people. Yes, a billion. Muse has topped the hit parade at the App Store. It’s among a very few mobile apps to cross ...

Anyway, the whole notion of a land-locked region with a scant five million people in it becoming a sovereign nation is bonkers. Smith should never have played footsie with economic lightweights or ...

The wire was an inch thick and caused nothing but problems.

Buying a house is a form of forced savings by paying the mortgage every month and maybe in 25 – 30 years you might actually ...

There are 8.4 million people in Canada who are now 65 or older. That’s 20% of the population. Of those, 7.5 million old snorts are collecting OAS monthly payments. That includes just over a hundred ...

Capital markets are enormously complex yet surprisingly simple. They’ll always tilt, on a risk-adjusted basis, in the direction where there’s the greatest opportunity to make money. This is one reason ...

According to data from the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI), reverse mortgages in Canada continue to grow at a rapid rate. As of June 2024, outstanding reverse mortgage ...