CALGARY – Albertans are the most likely in Canada to say they feel financially better off than they were last year (47 per cent), according to a survey released Monday by Sun Life Financial/Ipsos Reid.
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CALGARY – Albertans are the most likely in Canada to say they feel financially better off than they were last year (47 per cent), according to a survey released Monday by Sun Life Financial/Ipsos Reid.
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At the county level, America is a tremendously unequal place. The median household income in the poorest county (Wilcox County, Alabama) was $22,126 in 2012. In Falls Church, Virginia, where highly educated defense contractors and federal government workers cluster, the median income last year was $121,250, more than five times higher.
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After you have attended a number of real estate seminars, you are bound to hear about a study from Yale university which promotes the value of writing down your goals in order to achieve them. Their results claim to have found that 3% of graduates who wrote their goals down outperformed the other 97% combined in achieving financial wealth after having them followed for a 20 year period. This study is heavily quoted in order to get people to purchase a rental property or sign up for expensive courses. All of this leads to my question. Did the study ever actually occur as has been mentioned over the past 60 years?
I attempted a simple Google search and found that it had not!! No one from Yale ever recalls being part of the study. The secretary of the class of 1953 did not know of the study. The administrators at Yale were consulted and various offices records were also examined with no results. This is but one example of how seminars heavily promote their own agendas without doing any due diligence on what they are talking about.
For the record, I have never written down my goals because I am too busy taking action.
It’s taken some time, but Red Deer’s most prominent office building is filling up.
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FORT MCMURRAY — Here, strollers rule the fitness centre.
The Welcome Wagon is for women, only women. The relatively new magazine McMurray Girl? Sorry, boys.
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The world’s billionaire population continues to grow, as does their total wealth.
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Median household income in the United States remained relatively unchanged between 2011 and 2012, after falling 7% from the start of the recession. While the nation continues to recover based on other measures, it is not exactly encouraging news.
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One trillion is huge. It’s so hard to comprehend that 79% of Americans don’t know how many millions are in a trillion. (It’s one million times one million.)
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A funny thing happened on the way to the euro. When first introduced to the global financial markets in 1999, it began to appreciate in value compared to the U.S. dollar (USD). Around this time, West Texas Intermediate crude oil was trading below $20 a barrel. As the dollar lost value, oil began to rise. Is this a coincidence?
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How do Canada’s wealthy sleep at night? Better than most, it seems.
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