Another week passes financially, and I don’t have a set theme for this Friday, so here are some things to think about from this week.
- When is Tax Freedom! day for you ? It’s a synthetic date, but it still scares me how long into the year I have to work, to “break even” with my major creditor (i.e. the Government).
- Off Topic, Air Canada will ban pets traveling on passenger flights as of July 15th, which is interesting. You’ll have to ship Fido via FREIGHT if you want him to go to Vegas with you. Not a great PR move, but maybe it is such a headache for the system, they may be helping themselves. This Canadian No Fly list is getting nasty, now they aren’t letting Fido on the plane!
- Telus BCE merger talks continue as well, and it drives the BCE share price over $40.00, Thank You.
- Alberta’s provincial government posted an $8.5B Surplus (they earned that much more than they spent). Wow! How do I buy stock in them?
Interesting Week Postings
- May Inflation Steady at 2.2%
- Ronco goes for bankruptcy
- Please No Interest Rate Increase Mr. Dodge
- Happy Father’s Day The concept of Father’s Day, a day to celebrate our Fathers and their achievements, is a great idea.
- Retirement Savings: Are You Saving Enough For Retirement Are you saving enough for your retirement savings?
- Government Spending
- New Housing Prices Up
- Financial Opinions In the words of a bunch of movies, “Opinions are like ‘noses’ everyone has got one”
- Case Study: The Sopranos and Premium Cable Packages
- We Love our Gasoline in Canada
- Unemployment Stays The Same
- Financial Decisions
- Inspiration: You Can Do It (June 5, 1989) Who really was tank man?
- IPhone Written just as the iPhone was introduced in 2007.
- Half Year Financial Plan Update June has started folks, that means you are already 1/2 way through the year, and now is the time to revise, revisit and see how well you are doing on your financial plan.
- Median Family Income
- My Credit Card Just Bought Me a Coffee Maker
- My Spouse is Worth How Much: Final Thoughts
- Who Lives On The Median Income?
- My Spouse is Worth How Much: Simple Math Analysis
- My Spouse is Worth How Much: Single Income
- My Spouse is Worth How Much: Dual Income Family
- My Spouse is Worth How Much: Scenario
- Retirement? Not Likely for me
- My Wife is Worth How Much 2007
- Nortel Settles, Banks Rumble Along
- Canadian Economy Still Firing on all 8 for April (Leading Indicators Up)
- Canadian Tour of Personal Finance Blogs
- Top 5 Investing Regrets In My Life
- Inflation Eases to 2.2% year over year
- Workplace: One out of Three Canadians a Workaholic?
- Illness Follow Up and Telephony
- The Disappearing Middle Class in Canada
- Mothers Day
- Canada: More Going Out than Coming in !
- New House Price only up 9% in March
- Cisco former darling looking good for it’s age?
- Poppy Quarters ?
- Lu Lu Lemon?
- Sunday: Stewardship
- Free Association Fridays finally!
