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The Benefits of Canadian ShareOwner 2008-05-22 15:20:25 Recently I spent quite a while searching for the right discount broker. I already had an account at one of the “Big 5″ (in Canada, that’s RY, TD, BMO, CM, BNS), but I was looking for a cheaper way to get into exchange-traded funds, especially since I wasn’t going to be investing huge lump [...]
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, Benefits
Web Warrior Tools e-Book Store Launch 2008-06-01 15:33:07 The team over at Zen Habits has just opened an e-book publishing site called Web WarriorTools
. From there you can download e-books on topics like:
Getting Started with Podcasting (by Doug Heacock)
Secrets to A Healthy Life (by K. Stone)
The Get Rich Slowly Guide to Roth IRAs (by J.D. Roth)
Email Zen (by Scott Young)
These are just [...]
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, Launch
Is it Wrong to Sponsor Children in Africa? 2008-05-30 15:33:07 What do you think?
My understanding is that some people might view the “sponsorship” of a child by someone in the West as yet another “colonial” kind of move on behalf of the “First World” interfering with the “Third World” (I know those terms are no longer politically correct).
But what if you’re just really helping someone [...]
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, Sponsor
, Children
, Africa
Duck(s?) in Oil: Struggles of the Loonie and the Greenback 2008-05-27 15:28:07 The Financial Post reports that oil has fallen below $130 (it’s apparently at $129.97 as I write) and that because oil and commodities account for a reported 54% of Canada’s economy, the Canadian dollar is also down again for the fourth day in a row. The article itself does not explain why oil is low [...]
Splogging my posts already? 2008-05-27 15:27:18 Googled my blog and found this interesting tidbit: some bot or scammer seems to have already “splogged” (is that the right term?:)) one of my posts
. You can check it out here.
At least they did link back to my original article. But it’s passed off as original content. Or do you disagree? You can see [...]
A “No Money” Ramble 2008-06-03 00:55:08 I thought it might be interesting to share the fact that I am now officially out of an income. I do have a small research position that I’m working on in between breaks from my other project and posting here and fixing this site up. But I’m totally broke - no money in [...]
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, Ramble
Do You DRIP? 2008-06-01 23:41:51 Many years ago I read a little book by Cemil Otar here in Canada called something like Your Guide to Commission-Free Investing. It was a self-published book and looked it. I think I picked it up in the Chapters Books that used to be near Bay and Bloor in Toronto. Lucky me that I found [...]
A History of Personal Finance Blogs 2008-06-04 15:29:28 Can’t remember now how I ended up thinking about this, it was in a comment I made on someone’s blog - or it might have been while reading about the audaciously ambitious adventure of Jason Coulls over at MillionaireWithAdSense (a fellow Canadian; [oops; he's actually British] there’s something about Canadians and crazy online money-making adventures, [...]
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, Personal
, Blogs
Is my site working for you? 2008-06-03 16:17:06 A reader recently brought it to my attention that the site is not displaying properly in his Firefox and Explorer browsers. Does it look ok to you? For him, the far right sidebar was not being displayed properly, but was showing up beneath the posts.
This happens for me if I resize my [...]
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New and Noteworthy: Roundup of Recent PF Blogs 2008-06-05 13:49:02 In this post I’ll briefly review some personal finance and investment blogs that have recently caught my attention. Some are still fairly young (less than 3 months old), others are older but notable for their special angle, quality or focus. After each blog name I’ll post their date of inception as best that [...]
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, Blogs
How to Lower Your Credit Card Interest Rate 2008-06-06 14:21:04 Here’s a simple tip that I learned from Alan Corey in his book A Million Bucks by 30: How to Overcome a Crap Job, Stingy Parents, and a Useless Degree to Become a Millionaire Before (or After) Turning Thirty (which is an amazing read - I reviewed the book in an earlier post here).
You can [...]
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, Interest
, Credit Card
Is it Wrong to Sponsor Children in Africa? 2008-05-30 15:33:07 What do you think?
My understanding is that some people might view the “sponsorship” of a child by someone in the West as yet another “colonial” kind of move on behalf of the “First World” interfering with the “Third World” (I know those terms are no longer politically correct).
But what if you’re just really helping someone [...]
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, Sponsor
, Children
, Africa
The Awesome Power of Income Trusts 2008-06-07 07:30:29 Also known as royalty trusts, income funds and unit trusts, income trusts are a special type of investment vehicle that are traded on the stock exchanges and pay out on a regular basis to their unitholders. As far as I know, these are also a uniquely Canadian product (if anything similar to income trusts [...]
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Does Anyone Play Cashflow 101 Anymore? 2008-06-09 16:50:15 I’m talking about Robert Kiyosaki — the author of the Rich Dad, Poor Dad series — and his
great boardgame, Cashflow 101. You can still buy this game from his own site and from Amazon.
I remember going to a couple of Cashflow 101 games when I was an undergrad. There were about 7 [...]
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Moving On Up: MoneyEnergy Celebrates a Milestone 2008-06-09 06:00:49 Since this is going to be a site primarily about wealthbuilding and investing globally for cashflow, I don’t like to dwell on matters related to my blog or even blogging in general. The past couple of weeks I’ve done more of that than will be usual in that respect, primarily because I’ve moved to [...]
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Why You Should First Invest in Dividend Reinvestment Plans (DRIPs) 2008-06-10 14:30:52 I spent some time on some investment chatrooms last night, and heard alot of questions by some younger people (and those with quite a few dollars to invest) about what they should invest in first. Some of these people hadn’t even begun yet to do any reading on investments for themselves first, but were hoping [...]
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, Dividend
Virtual Gold: The Best Way to Invest in Precious Metals (Gold, Silver, Platinum) 2008-06-12 07:00:41 A few people I have talked to have been wondering about how they can invest in gold. Well, as Jim Rogers once said - once your local newspaper starts talking about how the dog next door just got started in commodites, then it’s probably time to get out. I’ve read more [...]
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, Silver
, Platinum
Buy Stocks Direct with MoneyPaper’s Guide to Direct Investment Plans 2008-06-13 07:01:02 In a previous post, I discussed the benefit of investing in stocks directly using dividend reinvestment plans (also known as direct purchase plans, direct reinvestment plans, or direct stock purchase plans - there are some slight pragmatic differences here, but nothing that should prevent you from getting started and enrolling). In this post [...] Read more:Stocks
, Direct
, Guide
Tools for Battling Plagiarism in the Blogosphere 2008-06-14 07:01:43 I came home last night to find that some traffic had come in to my site from an unfamiliar host that had one of my article names in its permalink. (If you’re not reading this on getmoneyenergy.com, this post has been stolen too.) I followed up on it to find that one of [...] Read more:Tools
, Battling
, Plagiarism
, Blogosphere
Genepax’s WES (Water Energy System) and Honda’s New Fuel-Cell Car 2008-06-16 13:31:36 “This is not a dream story anymore.”
So goes the proclamation from the new English version of the website for Genepax, an Osaka-based electricity generation company in Japan. Genepax has produced a small car - it looks like a Smart car - that runs solely on water. You pore the litre or more of [...]
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, Energy
, System
The Top Ten Canadian DRIPs (Dividend Reinvestment Plans) 2008-06-16 07:01:07 This ranking is somewhat arbitrary insofar as it is based upon my own opinions and preferences as a long-time DRIP investor, but I am basing it on certain objective and easily obtainable criteria, such as:
(1) whether the plan offers a discount on reinvestment,
(2) whether it requires a minimum amount for making an optional cash purchase [...]
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, Dividend
How to Invest in Genepax and Related Technologies 2008-06-17 13:23:06 Alot of attention over the last couple of days since Genepax’s press release has been given to how one can invest in their company and in their proprietary water energy system (WES). With WES, the car runs on water alone. Some kind of “battery” or “electrical generation machine” separates the hydrogen from the [...]
Wealthbuilding in Your Fifties and Sixties: DRIPs Work At Any Age 2008-06-17 07:08:20 For Father’s Day this past Sunday we went out for breakfast at a nice buffet bar (where everyone else had decided to go for breakfast too). My Dad wasn’t in the greatest of moods when we set off, but by the end of the meal I could see he was mentally in a [...]
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eNorthern Share Certificates Slow Getting to Computershare 2008-06-18 07:01:44 Recently I opened an account with eNorthern primarily for the purposes of ordering share certificates (registering the share in my name as opposed to the street name). What’s great about eNorthern is that they have the cheapest prices for share certification of any Canadian broker. It only costs $20.00 to order one. [...]
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, Certificates
Gold Dividends: 11 Mining Stocks That Pay Them 2008-06-24 07:01:08 So, you’e a cashflow investor. And you want to be a part of the commodities boom. The problem is that a lot of agriculture and resource stocks don’t pay dividends. Many of them can’t, I imagine, because they’re capital-heavy and need to reinvest all funds into their future projects because the [...]
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, Stocks
Helping the Small Investor: Ellen Roseman Brings DRIPs to the Mainstream 2008-06-23 07:01:29 I’ve followed Ellen
Roseman’s personal finance columns in the Sunday Toronto Star for more than a few years now, off and on, always looking forward to the possibility that I might find a new little financial gem of advice in there. Sometimes, I have. Most of the time I’m reminded and reinspired about [...]
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, Small
, Investor
, Mainstream
Potential Potash Play: Hinterland Metals (HMI: TSX.V) Now in Nova Scotia 2008-06-21 13:48:44 Here’s an unusual change in focus that reflects the urgency of the world’s food needs: what was primarily a metals and minerals company has at least temporarily expanded into agriculture.
Hinterland Metals
(HMI: TSX.V)) announced this week that it has applied for an exploration license for potash in the area of Malagawatch near Cape [...]
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eNorthern Shuts Down - Questrade Takes Over 2008-07-10 10:55:51 It’s too bad, because eNorthern had really cheap prices on share certificates, which is one of the reasons I was interested in them in the first place. Only $20.00. I’m not sure why, but now eNorthern is closing its “doors” to new business. Here’s what they posted on their site, if you click on “Open [...]
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