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This Sunday is Mother’s Day. Unlike a column in the Ottawa Citizen today that suggested organic cleaning supplies (which Mom wouldn’t appreciate that?) Mike from Quest for Four [...]

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I picked up a copy of The Globe and Mail newspaper this morning and was pleasantly surprised to see that Rob Carrick and Boyd Erman picked this blog for a column titled “Best of the Blogs”. Other blogs mentioned include The Dividend Guy Blog, Million Dollar Journey, Quest for Four Pillars and Middle Class Millionaire. [...]

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The Financial Post offers useful tips on getting organized for the 2008 tax year.
Thanks to Jon for posting the CBC news item on Canadians snowbirds buying up distressed properties in Arizona.
Jason Zweig writes in Money magazine about “rash, stupid and dangerous ideas about how to invest money” in a bear market.
The National Post carried [...]

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Your taxes are due on or before April 30, 2008. If you haven’t done so already, now would be a good time to start working on your taxes. Tim Cestnick has tax tips for last-minute filers.
While the stock markets have recovered somewhat from the deep losses around the middle of March, Larry MacDonald writes that [...]

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Warren Buffett took questions from yet another group of business students and Fortune magazine was there to record his answers.
ETFs were supposed to be a good thing that offered broad diversification in a low cost, tax efficient manner. Trust Wall Street to spoil the fun.
Ellen Roseman wrote about online resources available for picking a discount [...]

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Now that taxes are fresh in our minds, it is time to plan to save taxes for 2008. Sixteen ways to beat the taxman from the Financial Post.
Jonathan Chevreau says that QuickTax Web has been radically revamped this year and is now “neither quick nor painless”.
Tim Cestnick says that paying down debt with the income [...]

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Subtitled A History of Financial Speculation, this book by Edward Chancellor is on the list of books recommended by William Bernstein (of Four Pillars fame). The book is a scholarly account of financial bubbles - from the tulip mania in seventeenth century Netherlands to the Japanese stock market and real estate bubble of the [...]

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Peter Bernstein warns equity investors not to expect 7 percent real returns based on past experience.
Yet, another reason to be wary of emerging markets: performance chasers are feverishly pursuing them.
Gold enthusiasts point out that investing in the precious metal as an insurance against a future doomsday scenario. Thanks to Tony for pointing to an Economist [...]

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Rob Carrick’s verdict on QuickTax - it’s fast, easy and annoying. Rob also writes about the lessons from the ABCP fiasco for retail investors.
Everything you want to know about income splitting courtesy of James Daw of the Toronto Star.
Jon Chevreau notes the highlights of the Ontario budget (not much that directly affects our pocketbooks).
Tax saving [...]

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A simple explanation of the credit crisis that is roiling the markets and tipping the U.S. economy (and perhaps ours) into a recession.
Jeremy Siegel holds forth on the Fed rate cut, the Bear Stearns implosion and his concern about inflation pressures building in the economy.
An interesting column in The Globe & Mail on valuing REITs.
The [...]

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