Canada has several major banks and many schedule II banks – but with rates and plans all over the map, it’s difficult to know where to bring your business. Our aim is to help you navigate Canada’s banking options to discover which one suits your needs best.
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The best banks in Canada Oct 17th
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12 top personal finance books to read this summer
– moneysense.ca
For obvious reasons, a lot of personal finance and retirement books come my way and, from time to time, we’ve dedicated a particular edition of this column to a single book. This one looks at a dozen noteworthy books I’ve read lately, or plan to—most of them published in the last few years.
If you want to learn about…global macroeconomics
Let’s start with global macroeconomics, which is top-of-mind for many investors and would-be retirees these days. With central banks around the world putting their printing presses into overdrive to combat the coronavirus bear market (however brief it may have been), I suggest reading Graham Summers’ The Everything Bubble: The Endgame for Central Bank Policy, first published in 2017. It describes what the author calls “serial bubbles”—not just stocks but virtually every asset class, including fixed income and real estate. The U.S. tech bubble was $7 trillion (U.S.) in size; the subsequent U.S. housing bubble, $14 trillion; and the U…
If you want to learn about…global macroeconomics
Let’s start with global macroeconomics, which is top-of-mind for many investors and would-be retirees these days. With central banks around the world putting their printing presses into overdrive to combat the coronavirus bear market (however brief it may have been), I suggest reading Graham Summers’ The Everything Bubble: The Endgame for Central Bank Policy, first published in 2017. It describes what the author calls “serial bubbles”—not just stocks but virtually every asset class, including fixed income and real estate. The U.S. tech bubble was $7 trillion (U.S.) in size; the subsequent U.S. housing bubble, $14 trillion; and the U…