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Welcome to part 3 of my review of “Millionaire Teacher: The Nine Rules of Wealth You Should Have Learned in School“! If you don’t have the book yet, there’s a giveaway running across all parts of this book review with 5 copies of the book to be given away in all! Read part one: Book Review [...]

11 Comments Kevin on Jan 10th 2012

Welcome to part 2 of my review of “Millionaire Teacher: The Nine Rules of Wealth You Should Have Learned in School“! If you don’t have the book yet, there’s a giveaway running across all parts of this book review with 5 copies of the book to be given away in all! Read part one: Book Review [...]

20 Comments Kevin on Jan 3rd 2012

Back in June, I had a preview of Andrew Hallam’s new book “Millionaire Teacher: The Nine Rules of Wealth You Should Have Learned in School“, as well as a pre-order giveaway. I have been waiting since then for a copy of my own so that I could review the book and share my review with you [...]

20 Comments Kevin on Dec 19th 2011

Here is an article from my early days of blogging. This was originally published on April 5, 2010. I still remember when I was a student and I didn’t have any savings; what came in my chequing account left again rather quickly. In this series, I want to talk about how you can shift from [...]

21 Comments Kevin on Sep 12th 2011

This is a story by someone who is close to me, and is about how fortune, easily gained, can also be easily lost. From Riches To Rags… This is a story about an aunt and her husband who lived a very humble life. The story starts out when she ran away from home and eloped [...]

48 Comments Kevin on Aug 30th 2011

The price of gold has recently been shooting through the roof. As of the time of this writing gold is hovering near $1870. It seems like only a short while ago when I was wondering if $1500 was near. What’s going on with the price of gold? Is this the beginning of a mania phase [...]

27 Comments Kevin on Aug 22nd 2011

Me: Baby, how much should I save, and why? Her: How much? A lot. Why? To make me happy. We each have our own reasons for saving… what are yours? How much should I save, and why? Before we can answer this question, we need to ask another question: What is my time preference? In [...]

41 Comments Kevin on Aug 17th 2011

Is it possible to become a millionaire, on a teacher’s salary? Teacher and author Andrew Hallam seems to think so, and he shares his lessons in his upcoming book “Millionaire Teacher: The Nine Rules of Wealth You Should Have Learned in School“. I have always enjoyed reading Andrew’s personal finance and investing advice on his [...]

60 Comments Kevin on Jun 20th 2011

Sometimes I look back on the changes of the first half of the 20th century, and I try to put myself in the shoes of someone growing up in that time and imagine what it must have been like to experience life in that period. I think back to 100 years ago, which is really [...]

36 Comments Kevin on May 9th 2011

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