CanadianCouchPotato.com

There is a new blog on the internet called CanadianCouchPotato.com. In a nutshell, the purpose of the blog is to help investors who are thinking about dumping their advisor to start investing on their own, without making it a part-time job. The “couch potato” term refers to the fact that the portfolios are very low [...]

Money Making Decluttering

Designer extraordinaire, and guest author Daniela Garritano returns. If you would like to secure her services, don’t be afraid to email her by clicking here. Take it away D…

Happy New Year everyone!

Today’s class is all about becoming a de-clutter bug! Now, I don’t know about you, but every year after the holidays, I somehow [...]

The Alphabet Soup of Financial Advisor Designations

I’ve compiled a list of 20 of the most common financial advisor designations and thrown them into a navigable mind map. Just click on a designation to see what it stands for. When you want to zoom back out, just click on some white-space around the objects (as far to the edges of the window [...]

Cash For Clunkers Worked Too Well?

The Cash For Clunkers program in the United States might have worked too well. Under this program, people could turn in older, less fuel efficient cars for new cars and get up to $4,500 for their old clunkers. Critics asserted that all it would do is steal future sales and provide only a temporary increase [...]

Planet Orange – An Attempt To Teach Young Kids About Money

Without a doubt, pretty much everyone I’ve met thinks that society as a whole needs to do a better job (any job?) teaching our young ones about money in general. Throw in a financial crisis and education on money matters is more top-of-mind than ever.
But where and when do you start? The earlier the better [...]

Protecting Your Mortgage and Other Assets with Term Life Insurance

This is a guest post written by Denise Mancini from Accuquote.com. I normally get offers for guest writers who have something to promote and they offer to write a free article in exchange for links to their websites. They do this because more links from more websites make them rank higher in Google searches. Normally [...]

Capitalism: A Love Story – Michael Moore Takes On Wall Street

Whether you question the objectiveness of Michael Moore’s documentaries or not, one thing most people will agree is that his movies are thought-provoking and make for some good entertainment at the very least. His next project takes on another big issue: the market crisis, bailouts and Wall Street in general.
Capitalism: A Love Story, is set [...]

US Debt Clock

The US Debt Clock which was installed on the face of a Manhattan building made headlines months ago because this second generation version of the original US debt clock had run out of capacity: it only had room for 13 digits (not including cents!). Since the US national debt surpassed $10 trillion, there are plans [...]