Financial Management
Business Financial Management

Another GST Tax Cut

I was just reading the news today on how in the beginning of next year there is apparently a plan in place to cut our GST tax rate from 6% to 5%. For those who don’t know, we pay two types of sales tax here. Kind of surprising I thought considering we just had it

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Business Financial Management

The Up And Down Dollar

Doesn’t seem like this rising Canadian dollar bit is ever slowing down news wise as today there was a lot of buzz of it reaching to about 1.05 US. This made me curious in seeing what the trend has been like overall. I quickly went to Yahoo Finance and saw this quick chart which shows

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Financial Management

A Money Leecher

Today a person was telling me about a situation where there is a person they know who seems to get by as a result of sweet talking their way into borrowing money from one person to another by using sob stories. Literally, the person apparently owes people money well over the $10,000+ mark. The money

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Business Financial Management

Principles VS Financial Losses

I was having a conversation with a person about his views when it comes to doing the right things in life which sometimes require that you take a hit financially. For example, if someone has just scammed you out of thousands of dollars and it looks like it could possibly cost you more at the

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Using Money To Unmask People

One of my friends was telling me today on how he has met so many people that have tried to take advantage of him as a result of his financial success that he has kind of developed ways to quickly sort people who are genuine. His example was that there was a person he met

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Business Financial Management

Pricing Parity

I was reading the news lately on how retailers here are beginning to re-adjust prices for the items to reflect a price that is closer to ones found in US stores as a result of the Canadian dollar. Feels like one of those “What is taking so long?” type of situations. From what I see,

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