Posts by W. Rick Harris
Canadians in Financial Ruin; Where are The Reliable Solutions?
Are Your Finances Scaring Your Pants Right Off of You? One of This Week’s Headlines; Nearly half of Canadians are within $200 of financial insolvency: poll Besides being a headline to unnerve you as a Canadian, it is only one in a succession of headlines over the years. Past Headlines: 2017-05-08 · More than half of…
Read Full PostCrushing Home Ownership Dreams; Watch Your Destiny Destroyed
Home Ownership in Canada is Over!! Recently CHMC wrote that Home Ownership in Canada is over; is this fact or fiction? The head of Canada’s housing-market watchdog says this country places too much value in the dream of homeownership. “In places like Paris and Sydney and Hong Kong and Buenos Aires [and New York], people rent.…
Read Full PostWhy A Scary Moment Has to be the Thing to Change Lives?
A Scary Moment; What the Health! Don’t let age or the perceived condition of your health be your forever diagnose to life long living. Most of us don’t have a Best Before Date; there are real ways to push your Best Before Date back. Twice a year, I have complete blood work to monitor my…
Read Full PostGet Off Your Ass, Look for Opportunity and Love Life
It is easy to get caught up in all of your problems, and I am hoping the title of my blog post gave you a bit of a jolt. The nice thing about asking you to get off your ass and look for opportunity is we all have regrets. We are not sure how to handle our…
Read Full PostHow do You Keep More of Your Money Over Time?
Keeping More of Your Money Over Time In today’s world even with interest rates on the rise the returns you are receiving on your investments in many cases are not matching inflationary growth year to year. Think about this for a second; this means your principal investment is going actually to be worth less to…
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