“There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin.” - Linus
It’s been an awful, awful October for anyone with money in the markets, but Halloween is here to let you resolve your grief in a pile of candy wrappers and smashed pumpkins. But even though Halloween [...]
I do most car maintenance and repair myself, and have built up a nice collection of tools for doing so. One item that had been on my tool “want” list for some time was an OBDII reader. For the uninitiated, OBDII is the current On Board Diagnostics standard found on most cars made since 1996. [...]
My sister called me with an interesting investment question last weekend. She works for a large international oil company at their Calgary office and the company has just announced that it will be starting an employee stock purchase program. Under this program, she could arrange for automatic deductions from her pay (up to 5% per [...]
Most couples argue over the usual things- money, housework, and strippers. My wife and I? We argue over her willingness to let terrorists into our house. Here’s the situation:
On Saturday at about noon I was sipping my tea and reading Margaret Wente’s vacuous Upper Canadian whining in the Globe and Mail when our doorbell rang. [...]
Regardless of whether you’re rich or poor or whether the market is up or down, everybody has got to eat. Foodie Friday is when MGL takes a break from all that money talk and focuses on the joys of food.
Next week marks the beginning of Diwali, the Indian Festival of Light. Indians don’t do anything [...]