Will that be Cash or Chargex?
The unpaid bills are piling up. The inbox is full of late payment reminders, and you have stopped opening the mail. You don't answer your phone anymore for fear of who is calling. Call block only blocks some of the…
Credit Card Facts
Do you know your credit card facts?
With 73 million MasterCard and Visa’s in the wallets of Canadian consumers – I believe the more we know about these little plastic cards, the better. Did you know, the highest sales volume …
Financial Fallacies: Are You Living in Debt Denial?
Interestingly, a recent survey (http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/03/02/credit-card-debt-denial-canada_n_6784570.html) suggests that nearly one quarter of Canadians underestimate how their debt stacks up against the national average (hint: they owe more than the national average). On the other hand, the number of Canadians with no…
Household Credit: Use at Your Own Risk
It seems we’ve evolved from a world of prevention for protecting the public from a long list of hazards and perils to one that posts signs, like, “Use At Your Own Risk”. We see them everywhere. At beaches with empty…
Debt Freedom 56
Before rushing into my usual tirade about banks doing surveys and leaving the impression their findings are indisputable facts, I just loved the reference quote in the article in the Vancouver Sun today about a boomer who lived through double-digit…
Robots Money and Human Nature
I’m happy to see that all the money I spent on art classes for my children may pay off in the future when robots take over. At least that’s one futuristic prediction flowing from Douglas Todd’s latest well-written article …
