I understand that you want me to help you rewrite the text to make it sound more assertive. Here is the rewritten text:The Blue team did a fantastic job by hiring a top-class coach for the NHL. But let’s face it, paying over $50 million for an 8-year contract is ridiculous. I sincerely hope that the new coach can prove his worth and lead the team to victory in 2017, which marks the 50th anniversary of the last Blue team’s cup victory. As for the other coaches, they better step up their game if they want to compete. Who will be coaching the Red Wings now that Mike Babcock has left? Perhaps, Paul MacLean will come out of hiding? I remember the likes of Pat Quinn and Pat Burns, who were the last coaching greats. In any case, Mr. Babcock has a lot to live up to, and he must hire an experienced assistant to help him in his endeavors.
In other hockey money news, the Sens rewarded the Hamburglar Andrew Hammond with a 3-year one-way deal as well for about $4 Million dollars. Seems like the Sens now have a glut of goalies, someone will be taking the Via Train out of town soon (is my guess). Hope these folks have some solid financial plans to save this money.
Glad to hear that CPP is now worth $246 Billion dollars, that means I can live on low ash cat food when I finally retire (OK, I have a real pension, but I am allowed a little dramatic effect sometimes).
If you thought you were having a bad day, think of poor Li Hejun who lost $15 Billion on Wednesday, are they somehow implying that the stock market goes down? I suppose this means he had to be worth at least $15B before Wednesday ?
My Writings for Week Ending May 22nd
The Mad Men finale was fine by me, it wrapped things up nicely, and I got to sleep in the next day because it was a holiday, so there was nothing to be grumpy about there, either. A short week for me, but I did manage to get two articles done:
- The 10 minute rule with money is one of those articles I started about a year ago, but I couldn’t figure out where to go with it, luckily I found how to make it sentient.
- I keep comparing debt to things, I have previously said Debt is Like Fat, but this time, as I had been weeding my front lawn, I stated that Debts are like Weeds.
- Starbucks, Monty Burns and #BestMoneyStories
Fun Financial Filings For Fanatics
After last week’s odd firing line we resume a more normal format, but you never know when firing line may return! Mark from the Blunt Bean Counter asks an interesting question that sounds recursive in nature Can a Shareholder be an Independent Contractor for their own Company? In religious queries, George Carlin asked, “Can God create a rock so large that he himself cannot lift it?”. Marie (from Boomer and Echo) didn’t answer that question, but she did tell us about 5 Myths About Insurance. Insurance must be an important topic because Million Dollar Journey brought us 6 Important Tips When Buying Disability Insurance.
Mark from 2nd Career Search is enjoying his retirement (of sorts), but he points out the few successes and the (many) failures of outsourcing in Outsourcing success and Failures. Looks like you can fight the big banks, with Rob Carrick’s complaint No Stone Left Unturned, RBC Rate Hikes, causing RBC to re-think things. The Canadian Couch Potato wonders (in print) How Changing Interest Rates Affect Fixed Income, worth having a look at that.
So on the technology side of things, I was dismayed to see that Apple Gave up on a 4K Apple TV last year? Aren’t you guys supposed to be technology leaders? On the positive side of things, Brain-Controlled Bionic Legs are here (really)! Someone want to explain a Piezoelectric Violin ?
Michael James did some more fancy mathematics, with his analysis, The New RRIF Minimum Withdrawals are Designed for 3% Returns, colourful graphs too, something for everyone to enjoy. Mark from My Own Advisor seems to have forgotten the statement Neither a Borrower nor a Lender be with Peer-to-Peer Lending – Why not take advantage of the debt binge?
Fun with Pancakes
The next big thing? The Pancakebot!
Fun in Facebook
Door to Door mail delivery if I vote NDP eh?
Foreboding Tweets
Have I mentioned you should back up your data lately? Seagate reminds you in this scary tweet:
My Twitter feed is where I re-tweet many great articles by some of my featured writers (and make the occasional odd or off colour commentary on life (in 140 characters or less)). I am also on reddit, Tumblr, Pinterest , Flipboard, Instagram and other Social Media sites (look for the BigCajunMan userid) as well. If you have social media accounts, don’t forget to vote for my posts (see the nifty dashboard on the bottom of each article, where you can cast your votes).As they say in Quebec, vote early and vote often!
I find it interesting that there seems to be a hard split between my readers who like charts and math and those who gloss over that stuff. Maybe I should write two different blogs. Thanks for the mention.
Amazing post! It’s really a great information. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the mention. I’m looking forward to the Babcock experiment in TO…should be good entertainment!
Have a great weekend!
Mark
Should be interesting to see how big a broom he brings to sweep out players and such.
Fun fact: Mike Babcock led the University of Lethbridge Pronghorns to the CIS championship in 1994.
Thanks for the mention!
I seem to remember a song with the line, “I don’t want to be a Messiah, Messiah’s die young”, seems apropos.