by TallKirk | Feb 24, 2024 | Quick Reads
Another day, another big bank horror story. Single man. No kids. Retired with a pension. Wants to spend every last dime before he goes. Him: “I don’t want to be the richest man in the graveyard.” Bank employee: “Oh, but I want you to be!” He was treated like a number....
by TallKirk | Feb 21, 2024 | Quick Reads
A few easy financial wins if you’re feeling stuck and aren’t sure where to start: 1. Get a bank account that pays a reasonable interest rate (At least 2-3% rather than 0.02%) 2. Set up an automatic monthly deposit into your TFSA (limit is $7k this year, you can see...
by TallKirk | Feb 9, 2024 | Quick Reads
The predictions never stop in the finance industry. Inflation will do A. Interest rates will do B. The TSX will do XY and Z. It’s all just noise, of course. Or worse. Not just because predicting market performance is an unbelievably hard game, but because playing the...
by TallKirk | Feb 5, 2024 | Quick Reads
Where are you investing right now? And I’m not just talking about money and markets. I mean where are you devoting your time, energy and attention in the hopes of achieving a return? You see, we’re all investors, even if we don’t have millions in the markets. We all...
by TallKirk | Dec 10, 2023 | Quick Reads
One of the reasons planning for your future can be such a challenge is that many, if not all of us, fall under the spell of the End of History illusion. Which is really just a fancy way of saying that when we look back on our life, we can easily see that we’ve changed...
