Many Canadians could be three paycheques from homelessness, depending on their debt load and savings. This article breaks down how debt amplifies financial risk, why income loss hits harder than most people expect, and how building an emergency buffer can keep a temporary crisis from becoming a catastrophe. A practical warning wrapped in some classic Big Cajun Man realism.
Yes, Stats Canada asks the interesting question, “Is it possible to have the rate of folks employed stay the same, but the rate of unemployed folks increase?”, the answer this month is “Yes”. How? Read… Read More »Employment the Same but Unemployment Up?
In this particular case it was not my last day at Nortel, but that day was not that far away, and no I didn’t follow my advice.
More statement of the obvious, by Stats Canada that new housing prices year over year are up 6.2% year over year in December. Interesting the Land prices in the housing price is actually up 6.6%… Read More »New Housing Prices Up
One of the things I do at the start of the year is clean up my HUGE Quicken archive of transactions. It is a good thing.
