Let’s have some fun… It’s 100% official. The world has gone mad. And the captain is drunk. In case you missed it, yesterday the U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke, shocked the financial world by agreeing to continue pulling $85 Billion a month out of thin air to buy funky smelling assets. All in an…
The more we share about both of our childhood’s, the more I think we didn’t have anything close to a normal upbringing. Case in point… Special Reader’s Warning: This one is a little more gory than usual, so if that’s not your cup of tea please don’t proceed. Both of us would go to our…
About fifteen years ago I began reading every book I could find about personal finance. I literally went to WH Smith bookstores for hours, reading everything I could find right in the store. And then buying the few books that looked the most promising. I remember driving from Mississauga to downtown Toronto to track down…
The other day someone we know got offered a 5-year fixed mortgage for 2.79%. In the 1980’s our parent’s had a mortgage on their Mississauga, ON home for 16.5%. How times have changed. I bought my first “family home” for $279K. It was 4-bedrooms with a two car garage. This was about ten years ago.…
Warning: Stranger than usual rant ahead… We lost a real estate deal this week. A big one. One that we really wanted. And it hurts. I mean, we’ll live, but it was a good deal and we hesitated… only for a moment… and we lost it. Bam. Gone. There’s something funny we’ve observed about our…
We totally LOVE hanging out with fun people. Last week we were at an amazing event in Arizona – totally energizing hanging out with super smart, action oriented folk. During the breaks and at the evening dinners we started sharing stories of how we started and all the mistakes we made. This lead to Nick…
Have you been tracking what’s going on in Cyprus? It’s super interesting. Here it is in a nutshell: 1. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) told Cyprus they’re broke and their banks are broke. 2. They then said instead of giving Cyprus a “bail out” of cash to save themselves that instead, they would take money…
