“No-Spend Days:” How Many of Them Can You Fit In A Month?

June 2, 2009

Extreme frugal living: don’t eat. Don’t spend any money!  Security-driven individuals like me spend a lot of our time planning to make sure we never have to go without or that we’ll never be caught without money when we really need it.  This is the whole idea behind building an emergency fund.  In the past [...]

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Schiff Considers Running For Senate and Advises US to Default on Its Debts Honestly

June 1, 2009

In this past week’s radio show, Peter Schiff seems to have taken a turn from his earlier, steadfast resistance to everyone’s recommendations and support he run for US Senate.  For the first time now, Schiff concedes that he might run for Senate and that he is considering it.  Sites like Peter Schiff for Senate 2010 [...]

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Shariah Indices Put New Twist On SRI (Socially Responsible Investing) with New S&P/TSX 60 Shariah Index

June 1, 2009

Would you invest in a “green energy” mutual fund?  How about an “Islam-friendly ETF”?  This latter option may sound new but the indexes on which it is based have actually been around for a while, and they are growing at an increasing rate.
This past week, Standard and Poor’s introduced a new TSX 60 index which [...]

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More Evidence Showing That Losing Weight Is Correlated With Becoming Wealthier

May 30, 2009

If you lose a lot of weight, you’re more likely to also gain in wealth.  Thus finds an Ohio State University study from a few years ago.  The basic idea, as I understand it, is probably that (1) those motivated to lose that much weight will also be motivated to improve their finances and (2) [...]

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May Success Summary and Link Roundup

May 30, 2009

So here are a few updates from the past two weeks or so around here.  May’s activities have not been as immediately stellar as April, but a good, consistent follow-up. Two major points of note: I made the switch to the Thesis theme after searching long and hard several times for another free theme, but [...]

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ABC’s UN-BROKE: Personal Finance For Dummies, or Useful Infotainment?

May 30, 2009

Did you see UN-BROKE: What You Need To Know About Money On ABC Friday night?  Starring Seth Green, Samuel L. Jackson and Christian Slater, the one-time special purports to help educate us (or those who don’t know) about personal finance.  We can call it the celebrification of personal finance.
I didn’t catch it on TV, but [...]

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As Canadian Bank Earnings and Economy Go Down, Canadian Dollar is Up

May 29, 2009

The Canadian business news equivalent of “if it bleeds, it leads” has got to be the quarterly earnings reports of the Big Five banks.  This week it’s the Royal Bank of Canada, reporting its first losses since 1993.
It’s one seeming irony that Heather Scoffield has pointed out - for so long it’s been the other [...]

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