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Then, last year, with covid impacting the budget again, the church made a hurtful sweep of layoffs and laid off EVERY paid woman staff member: our minister of music, our children’s pastor, her assistant children’s ministry person, and a secretary. No men, only women. Women who held p...
This is why I’m not a fan of paying down the mortgage when interest rates are low. If we make extra payments to get out of debt then we deny ourselves the opportunity to properlydiversify our investments.Anddiversification, as the study points out, was how the top 7% got wealthier. Som...
I believe low interest rates are here to stay for the next 7 to 10 years. We’ll probably see small incremental increases by 25 or 50 bases points every year, but I don’t expect mortgage and bond rates get back to historical 6% or 7% until 2020 or later. This is because we have ...
The new development of recent years has been the ability, thanks in part to the market for junk bonds, to apply the technique to a much wider range of publicly held big businesses with capitalizations now routinely in the billions, and with new size records being set almost every year. The...
today. After our first year and a half there, the owner got greedy and hiked our rent up nearly 10%. We also started to wonder if upstairs living in a one bedroom without central air was ideal if we ended up growing our family in the next year. After lots of searching, a perfect ...
Up to date information on energy, metals, livestock, and agriculture related commodity prices, as well as historic prices up to 1 year. Color coded to show if movement is up or down. Site can be used to determine future inflationary pressure and to compare the price trend of two different...
With dividend growth stocks the important metric isn’t the dividend yield, but rather it’s the rate of dividend growth over time. 🙂 The biggest headwind to Corus is that the regulator CRTC wants to impose a pick-and-pay model next year which could hurt revenues of Canadian entertainment...
Canada’s federal housing agency predicts home prices will decline by as much 18% this year. The Canada Mortgage & Housing Corp. (CMHC) is concerned for the country’s long term financial stability amidst the higher unemployment rate this year. Its CEO recently announced that one fifth of “...
In 2021 the rate of inflation is 3%. But mortgage rates are below 2%. This means you are literally getting paid to borrow money in real terms. The value you pay to service a mortgage is less than the value inflation erodes away on that mortgage balance. ...