Welcome to the latest edition of weekly reading, and Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there! How are we still talking about Dogecoin these days? The meme 'cryptocurrency (I"ll use that term loosely) hit prices over 70 cents and was approaching a market capitalization of $100 billion …
Weekly Reading
PERSONAL FINANCE WORLD WEEKLY READING – MAY 2, 2021
Welcome to the first "May" edition of weekly reading in 2021! I'm hopeful that the weather changes coincide with some changes to the coronavirus landscape as we get closer to flipping the curve in the right direction. Ontario came out with some welcome news this week (assuming things actually …
PERSONAL FINANCE WORLD WEEKLY READING – APRIL 24, 2021
Welcome to another edition of weekly reading with a selection of articles from the personal finance and investing world. The markets were kind of up and down this week, but those are times you can really enjoy the fact you're well-diversified. Not having to worry about the daily or weekly …
PERSONAL FINANCE WORLD WEEKLY READING – APRIL 18, 2021
A suitable name for this weeks' theme might be "High Prices: Welcome to Crazyland." It's been over a year since we first started getting locked down due to coronavirus. Now over a year in and with vaccines available, we find ourselves not only in lockdown once again, but with daily case counts …
PERSONAL FINANCE WORLD WEEKLY READING – APRIL 10, 2021
Reading and listening to some of the latest personal finance content this week has got me thinking - are we working way too much? Many of us have the goal of saving as much as possible and reaching some stage of financial independence (more on that below). I find myself just as guilty of this …
PERSONAL FINANCE WORLD WEEKLY READING – APRIL 3, 2021
Happy Easter weekend to everyone. It's that time of year where spring seems to keep teasing us as flowers and sunshine begin to emerge, yet at the same time, zero-degree days will follow. With warmer weather on the way, some of us might be dreaming of potential summer road trips or getaways on …
PERSONAL FINANCE WORLD WEEKLY READING – MARCH 27, 2021
The big news this past week has seemed to be, the giant cargo ship Ever Given, stuck in the middle of the Suez Canal. While it's slowed the movement of goods and International trade considerably along this key route to Europe, it also generated a ton of great memes related to the unfortunate …
PERSONAL FINANCE WORLD WEEKLY READING – MARCH 21, 2021
Money, digital money and housing are the main topics this weekend! Canada's real estate market has been getting a little out of hand lately, with a limited supply of single-family homes and prices trending skyward, faster than Toronto Condos are being built. What got me thinking about this …
PERSONAL FINANCE WORLD WEEKLY READING – MARCH 13, 2021
It's the Weeknd!!! And the financial markets continue to be on a tear lately. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if that's where a lot of stimulus checks are ending up. We're seeing all sorts of record-high prices on what I'd consider speculative assets such as Bitcoin and NFTs (non-fungible …