I was reading this column dubbed as a Financial Facelift where people send in their financial dilemma in hopes to turn things around. It revolved around a 41 year old physician and a 39 year dentist who has 5 kids. Money wise they earn about $450,000 a year. However, since one of them is on […]
Since Gilbert Gottfried was on the recent season of Celebrity Apprentice it seemed to make information about him pop up more. I then noticed that he was on an episode of a show called Celebrity Swap. As the name implies, each celebrity literally swap wives with each other for a week to see how the […]
Revamping one’s finance must be a big topic during the new years as there were so many news sources that had topics about this. There were these segments I saw as well where credit counselors were giving people advice on how to trim down their credit card debt. The answer was the most common one […]
One interesting bit over this holiday period is that a lot of the financial institutions delay its money processing duties until the new years. As a result, for myself I have to manage a stream of income that will arrive in the new years which in some ways is a little odd. For example, for […]
There were quite a few reports about this Equifax case study lately that evaluates how much consumer debt people in Canada have. You can read the report at http://www.equifax.com/international/canada/documents/Equifax_Canadian_Consumer_Credit_Trends_Q3_2014.pdf From what I gather it is emphasizing how consumer debt has grown up to a new record of $1.5 Trillion. The interesting thing I noticed was […]
So there was news here today that the local transportation system here called Translink is essentially going to ask the people on how it should raise more money for the system. From what I read, the main options are to either increase taxes to the public in general or a carbon tax to people who […]