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We Are Officially Media Moguls
“Hey man, you want to buy a blog” “Can we do that?” “Yah, but our girlfriends will kill us...” And just like that, we began the process that ultimately led to us buying a blog that is pretty cool by any metric (maybe even as cool as this one) – Young and Thrifty. If...
Quebec Student Strike
As someone that blogs extensively about the post-secondary student experience, and specifically about the Canadian scene quite often, I have tried to stay away from the contentious issue that is going on right now. I'm talking about the Quebec student strike. For...
How To Use Your Liberal Arts Degree To Get a Government Job
I have been someone negative about the job prospects out there for people like me with a liberal arts degree before. While it is still not what I recommend for most people coming out of high school, it can be a valuable tool in your career tool belt if leveraged...
Now Introducing…
Hello Readers! My name is Bridgette Stevenson, I’m seventeen years old, and am currently in the middle of making that much anticipated transition from high school to university! After graduating high school a semester early to have the freedom to do some travelling...
Mint Review
Now that Mint.com has launched in Canada, I thought I would give it a test drive to see what it can do and write up our mint review, and so far I am quite impressed. To give you a background of my financial tracking skills I have always tried to keep up to date with...
Claiming a Business Loss – Losing Money Never Felt So Good
So a couple weeks ago I sat down to get our tax situation figured out for 2011. We decided to go with a chartered account to file all of the paperwork for us. It actually worked out pretty well since he needed a website made for him and one of us (I’ll leave it up to...
The Best of Money Carnival #151 – The Gentleman’s Rant Edition
Welcome to the Best Of Money Carnival! This week we decided to give a nice spin on the carnival by adding a few of "The Gentleman's Rant" in. I stumbled on these guys on YouTube and had a great laugh so I wanted to share with everyone else. Editors note: Some of the...
Why I Deserve My Own Mutual Fund
Forget this whole ETF thing baby, greed is good, passive investing is for wussies, and real men pick stocks! As long as you believe that 3 months is an accurate frame of reference, then I am a genius baby! In case you aren’t sure what I am referring to, check out my...
The High Cost Of Retail Fraud
Being a guy, I'm not really into going to the mall. But, as a former grocery store employee, (and current potato chip salesman) I can spend hours in grocery stores, just walking around, checking the space out. It fascinates me, because I understand the grocery...
‘Till Debt Do Us Part Is Ridiculous and Humiliating
Opinion What to do with 15 minutes to kill over a quick lunch and nothing good on TV? I’m scrolling through the 800-channels-but-nothing is on digital universe, when I come across a title that says, “’Till Debt Do Us Part.” It didn’t exactly sound scintillating, but...
Setting Up An Online Store
There are four essential components that make up on online store. The first one is a catalog or list of the goods or service you are selling, the second is a shopping cart or area in which people can see what they are purchasing, third is a secure connection and the...
The Gift That Keeps On Giving
In the spirit of my recent rash of political commentary articles (rash and politics just seem to go together so well) I thought I would give a shout out to a recent idea proposed by a Liberal Party in Canada. Ok, so it isn’t THE Liberal Party of Canada (federal), but...
Sports, Bread, and Circuses
The Romans had a simple theory, the idea was that the millions of people in the empire wouldn’t look around them and get mad at their decaying standard of living as long as they had “bread and circuses.” There are definitely parallels to be made today. The Native...
Why Cutting The GST Was Great Politics and Terrible Economics
As some of you may have picked up on I tend to have a slightly right of center bias on economic issues (not social ones I should quickly point out). I tend to believe in many of the bedrock foundations of fiscal conservatism such as a balanced budget, the...
Picks, Shovels, and Rent
There is an old saying that during the gold rush, it wasn’t the guys who found the gold that got rich, it was the businessman that supplied the picks and shovels. I’m wondering if a similar situation is not developing right now as North America embraces its energy...
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