The Carbon Pricing/Tax Thingy… What Is All the Noise About?
by “Axe the tax.” I’m not sure how many hundreds of times we’ve seen-read-heard this statement in the last couple of years. Pierre Poilievre and the …
Category: Financial
From the Business News Network … OAS Refinement Suggestions From Professor Paul Kershaw
Yes, I’m about to get back up on my “let’s rein in the costly OAS program” high horse. I won’t go back over my general …
Is It Time to Blowup the OAS … Is It Up to Those of Us Who Are Receiving It to Fix It?
es, I am going after one of the beloved sacred cows for seniors in Canada, the OAS. OAS provides a monthly pension payment to most …
UPDATED – Is It Time to Abandon Our Current Approach to Spending in Retirement … and Come Up with a More Aggressive Spending Plan?
Updated August 15, 2024 – timing information provided at end of article. The Love-goddess and I have been retired for over a decade now. It …
2024 Update – International Travel and Money … Currency Exchange, the Traveller’s… New Solution? (Part 2)
After pausing to write about, what I was going to write about, I return to the currency exchange dilemma. As you read in Part One, …
2024 Update – International Travel and Money … Currency Exchange, the Traveller’s… New Solution? (Part 1)
On the 6th of December 2022, I posted my first article about how we approach paying for things when we are abroad. And then, on …
On Being Retired … Things I Think I Now Know About Retirement (Part 2)
The “Operational Truths”… According To the Retiree 🙂 Having wrapped up the intangible “People” aspects of retirement, it’s time to move on to some of …
*Updated – International Travel and Money… Currency Exchange, the Traveler’s Solution
*Updated December 14, 2022 to include international charge card information. Boomers! Remember when we were all hitchhiking around Europe and other far-off places in the …
The Family Finances … New Year, New Approach????
Last week I had this little conversation with myself in my head: “I really need to come up with a good idea for an article …
Retirement Financial Mistakes … That I Made, Oooooops!
If you are looking to read some sort of terrible Greek tragedy involving financial disaster, family disintegration, and individuals spiralling down into deep despair, I’m …