Those of you who have been reading this blog for awhile might remember that my favourite all-time personal finance book is The Wealthy Barber by David Chilton (released in 1989). Since it sold over 2 million copies I’m going to assume I’m not the only who thought it...
As I was sitting at my girlfriend's place for Thanksgiving, I was thinking about article ideas and what issues affect students during this time of the year. For many first-year students, Thanksgiving weekend marks a point where you can finally take a breath and...
No matter how many times students are told that they would make great candidates for a certain handout of free money, the convenient excuse to avoid the application chore is to say, “I’m sure there are a ton of people out there more qualified than me.” The truth is...
The Big Short is another of the Michael Lewis books I got to pick up this summer (being a teacher is great for summer reading) and I thought it was even better than Liar’s Poker, which was the first book of his that I read. Lewis has the unique perspective of someone...
I recently came across an interesting thread on a forum concerning the usage of student loans. These people had basically invented a fairly brilliant, if somewhat ethically-grey strategy for maximizing returns when they used a student loan to invest. These...