Another installment of the best financial tweets of the week. I continue to try to figure out whether I need to cut down the number of folks I follow or find a smarter way to get to the important tweets of the week.
Given this was a week with the Bank of Canada cutting interest rates, oil price shenanigans and King Abdullah’s passing the twitter verse did have a lot of interesting stuff.
The Media Maven of Money (Preet B.) started flexing his financial chops with a very interesting set of simulations to try to answer the time-honored question, is it better to buy your house, or rent and invest your money?
Based on feedback, results now presented more cleanly in Buy vs Rent calculator. The win rate over 1000 simulations. pic.twitter.com/vdVSoFzZ97
— Preet Banerjee (@preetbanerjee) January 25, 2015
Is King Abdullah’s passing a sign of changes in the Middle East? That remains to be seen
The NYT obituary for King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia http://t.co/7TskvIsopq pic.twitter.com/09rWpWtiIc
— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 25, 2015
This is why you should have the Bank of Canada on your Twitter Feed. You should read their policy stuff yourself, it’s not long and usually the “talking heads” leave major portions out.
Release of the Monetary Policy Report http://t.co/1uuXzDOxfm
— Bank of Canada (@bankofcanada) January 21, 2015
Given gas is so darn cheap are you putting more money in your savings? One point of view of what is happening down south
Question for outlook: how much of gasoline windfall is spent and how much is saved?http://t.co/T4TWUK8SlJ via @WSJ pic.twitter.com/sxmHE3YDoy
— Kathleen Madigan (@MadiganWSJ) January 22, 2015
Wasn’t 1-2-3-4-5 the password on Spaceballs? Yeh, some amazingly interesting passwords out there
The Top 25 worst passwords you should stop using ("trustno1" doesn’t cut it, sorry): http://t.co/bnCn8Xaov8 pic.twitter.com/BjfGz8ifCt
— Canadian Business (@cdnbiz) January 20, 2015
Did you give over the holidays? Maybe it’s time to start thinking about that?
THANK YOU to all who helped us #FillPlates over the holidays! pic.twitter.com/xBhzONBWwD
— Ottawa Food Bank (@OttawaFoodBank) January 9, 2015
A bit of shameless self-promotion to end things off, I am on another list of bloggers you should read (along with some other interesting folk).
https://twitter.com/BrighterLifeCA/status/558787633351229440
I’m not a Twitter pro by any means but couldn’t you just make a LIST of all the people whose Tweets you want to follow to weed out the one’s you’re not too keen on but from time to time might sneak a peak? Maybe that way you can source out tweets of the week that catch your fancy. I have a list of the PF bloggers which makes it MUCH easier. Happy Sunday Friend!
I keep forgetting about the lists factor, thanks for reminding me!