One key trick that I learned while going to university (and also one we pointed out in our book), is to go to the first few classes before you plunked down hundreds of dollars of textbooks for a course. The reason for this is because many times professors will put...
This past week in one of my business courses that I teach we were going over the different types of registered savings accounts that Canada offers and one of my students asked me a very interesting question: “So Mr. Prevost, what you’re saying is that if someone puts...
When you’re living on a student’s budget, dating can stretch your finances to the breaking point. You want to go out and do things with your date, but not nearly everything you both want to do is free. Since it’s almost impossible to go on cost free dates, low cost...
As someone with B.A. I’ve written about the benefits of getting a liberal arts degree, and the challenges it presents for people who see a B.A. as a direct route to employment. In the final chapter of our new book: More Money for Beer and Textbooks – A Financial...
I often find the question of how much to give to charity a tough one to answer. After all, as a personal finance geek it can be tough to break out of the mindset of saving everywhere one can in order to prepare for the future. Realistically though, as much as we...