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I almost got thrown out of a coffee shop yesterday morning.
Apparently, the bohemian latte crowd isn’t down with random exclaims of “Wait, what?” from suits reading Canada’s national newspaper. Yet that was the only way to express my frustration upon reading the Globe and Mail editorial yesterday entitled “Private Saving, Collective Loss“.
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After a well deserved holiday hiatus, MGL is back and more optimistic than ever. From an investment perspective few would disagree that 2008 was a very rough year for most people, but I’m hopeful that 2009 is going to prove much better. No, I haven’t been overindulging in the holiday eggnog, nor have I been [...]
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In yesterday’s post, I mentioned that donating securities to a charity can offer some attractive tax benefits. A reader wrote and asked me a few questions about this, and my long winded response quickly began to look like a nice blog posting for anyone else who may be interested in this topic.
In Canada, donations to [...]
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The holiday season is a time of year when many of us turn our minds to charitable giving. For some, it is motivated by altruism and holiday spirit; for others, it is motivated by the cold hand of tax planning and the realization that we’ve being living the past 11 months like Ebenezer Scrooge.
Whatever your [...]
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Quick- name three “recession proof” industries.
If you’re like me, you probably thought about those industries with inelastic demand and solid business models- big tobacco, health care, and other sectors that people just won’t cut out of their monthly budgets. But would you have guessed that sex toys might fall in this category as well?
Anthony Germain, [...]
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