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1 week ago |
greaterfool.ca | Garth Turner
The average wrinklie in Canada has a retirement income of about $34,000. The average for a couple (and their cat) is $74,200. This includes everything. The public pension. Old people’s pogey (OAS). Income from RRIFs and any benefits from a past job. It ain’t much, especially if you live in a city, or have an expensive property to carry. And Dog forbid if you spawned a needy kid or two expecting you to cough up a house downpayment.
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1 week ago |
greaterfool.ca | Garth Turner
He came to Canada from the States as a toddler. Met his throb while working in tech on the US west coast, then returned to Canada to make a life. They’re both duallies, but when it comes to family finances the Yankee-cowboy side prevails. Of the three million they’ve saved and gained in stock options, 90% is in equities, eighty per cent in US$ and most of it sits in American accounts, including some 401k and Roth IRA stuff. We talked.
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1 week ago |
greaterfool.ca | Garth Turner
After six months, Parliament resumes today. Expect big, fast change says the guy in charge. The latest Nuk Nanos poll shows a wee burst of optimism in the wake of the federal vote. “In the period following the election of the Carney federal government, consumer confidence has been improving,” he reports. “Views on the future strength of the Canadian economy remain net negative but positive views have doubled in the past four weeks.
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1 week ago |
greaterfool.ca | Garth Turner
So the King arrives tomorrow. Before lunch on Tuesday he’ll read the Speech from the Throne, opening the new session of Parliament. Crowns, horses, pomp and ceremony will abound. If there’s any doubt remaining we’re not the 51st state-in-waiting, Chuck and Camilla will douse it. That’s the point, after all. Carney engineered it. It’s been a long time since a monarch sat in the House of Commons and delivered the government’s agenda. The Queen did it in 1977 for T1.
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2 weeks ago |
greaterfool.ca | Garth Turner
“My dear wife has listened to me espouse your wisdom in the morning over coffee,” he says. “With good coffee, good company and borrowed wisdom I have had 30 good years together with her.”Ah yes. The GreaterFool marital bliss strategy. Saving romantic unions across the land, one at a time, with arousing talk of basis points, index funds, monetary policy and, of course, shorts and BRAs (buyer representative agreements, silly).
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