No Inflation in my Writings
- Hospital Fees, especially parking, is diabolical.
- Random Thoughts, let’s all skate is a thing to do in Ottawa.
- Decluttering Financially is a very good thing to do.
- Interest Rates Going Nowhere For Now That is good.
- Inflation Edges Up in December 2009 is never a good thing.
Not Inflating Yet
What with the Interest Rates remaining steady and the CPI only at 1.3% for the year sounds like things are just peachy and rosy in the financial world, but I suspect that the Financial Blogosphere may not completely concur with that statement yet:
- After my post about Financial De-Cluttering I was glad to see the post 3 ways being organized can save you money from the Million Dollar Journey. Yes it seems obvious, but is it?
- Michael James talks about how the Assault on Public Service Pensions Begins a topic near and dear to my heart. I feel like Typhoid Mary, wherever I go, I bring Pension issues.
- Preet does some number crunching of his own in The Counter-Intuitivity of Fixed Income Indices although I am curious about the word Counter-Intuitivity, can I use it in Scrabble?
Carnivals Too
You can find my post Do you have saving questions? at the Carnival of the Road to Financial Independance.
Random Thoughts from 2010
- So many financial questions and more random thoughts, too, to start the year.
- The Rideau skateway opened in 2010, with more financial posts too.
- Got the end of 2009 Inflation perspectives with other stories.
- Chutzpah and financial discussions always go hand in hand.
- I’ve written about financial shock collars before with some Random thoughts.
- Valentine’s Day 2010 was an OK time but I still complained.
- Remember the 2010 Vancouver Olympics? Those were heady days, moneywise as well.
- What does the Canadian National Anthem have to do with money? In 2010 it did.
- Random Thoughts: Spring has Sprung? better watch out for ragweed.
- Random Thoughts: Let the Madness Begin! as it does every year.
- Inflation: Facts and Figures You Should Know important to know.
- Practical Financial Tips For Navigating a Rising Interest Rate Environment seems a bit long winded.
- Random Thoughts: A Financial Haiku We explore the train of thought about value and a financial haiku. Keep it clean! Optimized for Google and including the keyphrase ‘haiku’ twice.
- Let the Playoffs Begin! New rules for the NHL playoffs and financial institutions: Get ready for taxes in the springtime with these updates!
Um.. yah, the Kindle? About to get squashed for good.
I believe the call of bullshit was from my comment, not Larry’s post. I’ve since created a spreadsheet to compare results under 3 different tax system – a 50% flat tax, a 39% flat tax, and a realistic, progressive tax topping at 39% (ie. an Albertan’s tax rate).
And I actually can’t figure out how they got the numbers they did in the first place. Even the 50% flat tax scenario gives me $550k after taxes in 20 years. (Though I can get $460k if I calculate the tax refunds the more intuitive, but wrong, way.)
Thanks for the link Big Articulate Man. 🙂
Thanks for the mention. I saw Larry’s post on life insurance vs. RRSP, and I was suspicious that the financial planner’s analysis was skewed, but hadn’t formed an opinion yet.
As usual it is easy to skew the numbers and make one option look more attractive, especially if you are selling life insurance for folks over 65 (a new growth industry, which I view as finanicial pornography as well).