Archive

2021

• 01/12 New Year. Same Story.
• 01/12 Why I Leave the Office at 5
• 01/12 What Does it Take to Be Happy?
• 01/11 5 Charts: 2020 Investment Performance and 2021 Investment Predictions
• 01/05 MF Doom on Writers Block
• 01/03 Should You Give Up On Your Dream Job?

2020

• 12/31 How to Hire the Right Person
• 12/28 Dave Chappelle on Getting Screwed Early in Your Career
• 12/25 How to Answer the Question: “What’s Your Salary Expectation?”
• 12/21 31 Dividend Payers that Raised in December
• 12/20 5 Actions to Take Before Even Considering Investing
• 12/17 Dec 14 In Depth Cal-Tech Interview with Charlie Munger
• 12/12 Enbridge Reaffirms Growth Targets and Raises Dividend
• 12/09 What if the Canadian Government Gave Everyone $45k at Birth
• 12/02 Philip Fisher’s 15 Points to Look for in Common Stock
• 11/29 “We All Have 24 Hours a Day”
• 11/28 Beware: Amazon Sidewalk
• 11/24 And You Thought Your Job Was Hard!
• 11/23 4 Tips for Job Seekers
• 11/19 Warren Buffet & Charlie Munger on Capitalism
• 11/19 The Covid-19lbs
• 11/13 TSX 60 Dividend Yields Report (November 13, 2020)
• 11/13 The Raise You Shouldn’t Take
• 11/10 Warren Buffett & Charlie Munger (1995 Interview): Moats, Castles and Lords
• 11/10 Warren Buffett (1985 Interview): How to Pick Stocks
• 11/09 Full List of Dividend Achievers
• 11/08 Toronto Real Estate Breaks Records Despite Condo Market Lag
• 11/07 8 Must See Post-Election Investing Charts
• 11/03 Free Financial Education Webcasts
• 11/03 8 Simple Wealth Hacks for Financial Literacy Month
• 10/30 There Is No Such Thing as a “Self-Made” Man
• 10/26 35 Covid-19 Bankruptcies and Store Closures List
• 10/25 49% Seriously Considering Quitting Job
• 10/23 Start Your Business Tomorrow
• 10/22 Work-Life Balance Pandemic Gains are Over
• 10/21 Lessons From The Dot-Com Collapse
• 10/18 Masterclass: Danielle DiMartino Booth Interviews Economics Guru Rosenberg
• 10/14 88% of Canadian Equity Funds Underperform
• 10/09 Q&A: A Lazy Man’s Guide to Portfolio Construction and Stock Selection
• 10/06 The Case for MO
• 10/05 Chart: Market Recovery vs Past Bear Markets
• 10/04 Stock Market Performance Under Different Presidents
• 10/04 9 Large Cap Canadian Stocks Trading Below Book Value
• 10/01 10 Ways to Fix Your Resume Right Now
• 09/30 Why I Would Never Start a Bricks and Mortar Retail Business
• 09/26 Dividend Investing’s Psychological Edge
• 09/24 4 Dividend Growth Opportunities To Benefit From Market Decline
• 09/23 10 Things You Can Do To Succeed in a New Job
• 09/18 Cash for Life
• 09/12 BCE: 128% Dividend Growth Since 2008
• 09/11 Career Day: Amazon has 33k Available Jobs
• 09/10 People Who Love Their Jobs: What Do They Do?
• 09/09 20 US Dividend Champions with Fastest Growing Dividends
• 09/07 What is the True Cost of a Reverse Mortgage?
• 09/05 The Half Life of Knowledge
• 09/02 Should Parents Pay for College?
• 08/30 Where are the Black People in Finance II
• 08/28 Review: BMO Equal Weight Banks Index ETF (ZEB)
• 08/27 How Jeff Bezos Made All His Best Decisions
• 08/26 Does Gold Outperform Stocks Over the Long Run?
• 08/25 Canadian Mutual Fund vs ETF Flows
• 08/25 What You Need to Know Before Buying a Home
• 08/21 Jim Rogers: How to Be a Great Investor
• 08/21 How Much Should You be Saving?
• 08/21 Chart: Home Insurance Costs by Ontario City
• 08/19 Canadian REITs: The Lazy Person’s Path to Real Estate Investing
• 08/19 The Fisherman and the Businessman
• 08/18 Build Your Personal Brand to Grow Your Career
• 08/17 Why is The Market At All Time Highs?
• 08/16 Free Skills Training
• 08/14 Lacy Hunt on ‘The End Game’
• 08/13 Why Invest in Dividend Stocks
• 08/12 CIA: How to Destroy Companies
• 08/10 8 Recent Dividend Raises by Canadian Companies
• 08/09 5 Ground Level Charts on the Economic Recovery
• 08/08 12 Charts: Toronto Housing Market
• 08/06 The Rising Income Trap
• 08/05 My Boss Quit
• 08/04 Jeff Bezos Pours His Heart Out to Congress
• 08/03 How Can You Tell if You Should Pursue Your Business Idea?
• 08/03 S&P/TSX 60 Dividend Yields (July 31, 2020)
• 08/01 Weekend Sponging: Jamie Dimon, Danielle DiMartino Booth & Jeff Gundlach
• 07/31 The Great Wealth Transfer to Big Tech
• 07/29 Visualizing the Billionaire Class
• 07/27 5 Must See Gold Charts
• 07/25 Gail Vaz-Oxlade Gets Candid on Home Ownership
• 07/22 Americans are Nowhere Near Prepared for Retirement
• 07/20 Ignore Your Canadian Fund Manager’s Historical Performance
• 07/19 Charts: Real Estate in the Crapper
• 07/15 Don’t Send That Angry Email!
• 07/13 How Abundance Might Lead to Revolution or War
• 07/12 What Drives Gold Prices?
• 07/07 Should You Wait for a Market Pullback Before Investing?
• 07/04 10 Charts That Make You Say ‘Hmmm’
• 07/02 Review: iShares S&P/TSX Composite High Dividend Index ETF (XEI)
• 06/27 Chart: US Personal Incomes Actually Rose in April
• 06/26 17 Investing Guru Quotes
• 06/17 5 Top Dividend ETFs in Canada
• 06/15 This Might Be Your Last Job
• 06/15 Where are the Black People in Finance?
• 06/12 The Destruction of America’s Middle Class
• 06/04 Why Executives Want to End Work From Home
• 06/01 May 2020 US Dividend Increases
• 05/31 11 Market Charts: Dividend Drawdown, V-Shapes, And More
• 05/29 1989-1996 Canadian Housing Collapse Looks Eerily Similar to Today
• 05/28 25 Life Changing Dale Carnegie Quotes
• 05/27 3 Canadian Preferred Share ETFs for Steady Income
• 05/25 Canadian Housing Prices Down 10% Since Feb
• 05/22 Free Websites for Toronto Small Businesses
• 05/21 7 Opportunities for Entrepreneurs Right Now
• 05/19 40 S&P 500 Companies Raised Dividends During the Covid-19 Crisis
• 05/16 The 60/40 Portfolio is Dead
• 05/12 The One Skill To Get Your Career Moving Faster
• 05/10 Your Money IS Your Life
• 05/06 US Companies That Actually Raised Dividends Last Month
• 05/03 Your Pay Just Got Cut: Now What?
• 05/01 14 Charts on the State of the World (May 1, 2020)
• 04/28 How to Not Get Fired While Working from Home
• 04/24 List of All 17 Gold ETFs in Canada (July 2020)
• 04/21 3 Lessons: Don’t Go Broke Investing
• 04/20 Why Oil Price Went Negative Today
• 04/18 11 Signs Canada Housing On Verge of Collapse
• 04/16 14 Charts on the Crisis at Hand
• 04/14 True Stories from the Covid-19 Front Lines: Small Business Collapse
• 04/13 RBC and CIBC Commit to No 2020 Layoffs: 5 Reasons Why This is a Smart Business Decision
• 04/12 39 Wealth Building Hacks by Naval Ravikant
• 04/11 What You Must Know Before Deferring Your Mortgage
• 04/10 14 Ideas from Howard Marks to Help You Invest in this Bear Market
• 04/07 Great Depression 2.0?
• 04/07 How Will Working Life Change Post Covid-19?
• 04/06 This Covid-19 News May Trigger a Big Rally
• 04/06 Deep Thoughts
• 04/05 25 Charts of the Week
• 04/04 Now is the Time To Build Emergency Savings
• 04/01 How to Pick Dividend Stocks
• 03/30 S&P/TSX 60 Stocks Dividend Yields (March 30, 2020)
• 03/29 19 Charts To Start the Week
• 03/25 US Hospitals Collapsing
• 03/24 Covid-19, The Economy and Mental Health
• 03/20 15 Charts: Covid-19 Coronavirus Carnage
• 03/17 Stop Trying to Perfectly Time the Market Bottom
• 03/16 True Stories from the Frontlines of the Covid-19 Economic Collapse
• 03/13 How Not to Get Sick with Coronavirus
• 03/12 Current Bear Market vs Past 2 Bear Markets
• 03/11 Stock Declines from Recent Highs
• 03/10 Dividend Kings for March 2020
• 03/08 Should You Put Up with Crappy Parents for Your Inheritance?
• 03/06 What Do Portfolio Managers Think of the Market? Who Cares.
• 03/02 Fees Eat 57% of Your Investment Gains
• 03/01 Covid-19 Quarantine: Don’t Panic Buy, Prepare
• 02/29 How to Prepare for the Coronavirus
• 02/29 Why Gold is Declining
• 02/26 Could Covid-19 Trigger a 2008-Style Financial Crisis?
• 02/24 Corporate Scapegoat: The Mid Level Executive
• 02/21 6 Reasons to be Bullish about Toronto Real Estate
• 02/20 Markets Hit Highs: So Why Are You Broke?
• 02/17 Should You Pay Down Your Mortgage or Invest?
• 02/14 4 Charts: China Coronavirus Collapse
• 02/13 Bob Farrell’s 10 Rules for Investing in 2020
• 02/10 Worked to Death
• 02/05 How to Give Your Child a Massive Financial Head Start
• 01/31 True Coronavirus Death Rate May be Far Higher
• 01/30 You’re Richer Than You Think? City by City Median Income in Canada
• 01/29 DoubleLine Round Table Panel Discussion
• 01/27 5 Year Plan for Financial Freedom
• 01/20 Death of the Middle Class Dream
• 01/18 4 Gold Bullion ETFs in Canada for 2020
• 01/13 20 Jobs with Highest Pay for Stress Ratio
• 01/07 The Dividend Collector
• 01/05 Periodic Table of Returns: 2010-2019
• 01/02 Top Performing Markets in 2019

2019

• 12/30 Potential Risks of Canadian High Interest Savings ETFs: PSA & CSAV
• 12/24 Stocks Don’t Always Rise Over the Long Term
• 12/19 Tales of the Working Poor
• 12/15 Is it Worth Sending Your Child to Private School?
• 12/11 Growing Up Gen X
• 12/09 Police Officer: How to Protect Your Wealth from Thieves
• 12/04 Time to Stop Loving That “Hot” Portfolio Manager
• 12/03 Investing Fees Will Leave You Broke During Retirement
• 11/27 I’m Shocked This Money Myth Still Exists
• 11/22 Ignore The ‘Experts’
• 11/18 Compounding and the Self-Funding Portfolio
• 11/15 Should You Sell Your Toronto House And Rent?
• 11/12 Jeff Gundlach on the Next Economic Collapse
• 11/11 Toronto Homes: Not Best Investment 2008-2018
• 11/07 Avoid Going Broke Using Grampa’s 7 Tips
• 11/02 Is It Worth Buying a Condo to Rent Out in Toronto?
• 10/28 How a High School Student Can Create $1 Million in Wealth
• 10/22 Landlords Beware
• 10/19 Is $1 Million Still F.U. Money?
• 10/16 8 Essentials for More Productive Meetings
• 10/12 How to Become a Better Investor
• 10/10 What Should My Kid Study?
• 10/05 The S&P 500: Biased and Misleading
• 10/02 Stephen A. Schwarzman: 25 Rules for Work and Life
• 09/30 Don’t Wait for the Perfect Plan to Start
• 09/29 The Biggest Financial Decision of Your Life
• 09/29 Gain Time by Exercising and Living Healthy
• 09/25 20 Wealth Tips from Real Financial Professionals
• 09/22 Is It Worth Getting an MBA?
• 09/19 Dying Words of T Boone Pickens
• 09/16 The Latte Factor Warning
• 09/11 Dirt Cheap Access to Canadian Stocks
• 09/09 How to Generate Retirement Income
• 09/07 Vacation is Stressful
• 09/05 The Intelligence of Dumb Money
• 09/01 Why Did I Start DumbWealth.com?
• 08/31 14 Money Quotes from the Birthday Boy, Warren Buffett
• 08/28 Who Are Your Real Friends?
• 08/24 Trapped at Work?
• 08/23 Don’t Let Unlikely Events Financially Wreck You
• 08/21 Buying Something? Sleep on It!
• 08/19 Beware of 10 Year Fund Performance Data
• 08/16 What Successful Senior Executives Realize
• 08/16 2 Things You Should Always Do At Work
• 08/16 5 Things You Should Never Do At Work
• 08/16 You Have Less Time Left With Loved Ones Than You Think
• 08/16 5 Regrets of the Dying
• 08/16 Grow or Die
• 08/16 Burned Out
• 08/16 Think Twice About Becoming (or Hiring) a Portfolio Manager
• 08/16 Do You Owe Your Employer Gratitude?
• 08/16 8 Life and Money Lessons Shared by the Elderly
• 08/16 8 Simple Habits to Get Slimmer, Smarter and Richer
• 08/16 You Live. You Work. You Suffer. You Die.
• 08/16 When Should a Middle-Aged Family Man Quit His Job?
• 08/16 Are You Wasting Your Life?
• 08/16 Is Your Scarcity Mindset is Holding You Back?
• 08/16 Poverty at 40 is Not Cool

2013

• 03/19 Money Is Debt, Gold Is Money

2011

• 12/18 Peak Oil, The New Boom Bust Cycle and Gold