Received My SolarShare Bond Certificate! If you meet someone new, start talking about global warming. It’s a real icebreaker! 😄 Climate change is very real and as a concerned citizen I want to help however I can. According to top scientists, earth is the only known planet with bacon. This is why I care so deeply about protecting the world. So… Read More »
Investing in a Brighter Future The Easiest $300 I’ll Make This Year Hello eco-conscious friends! I recently discovered a way to earn $300 in interest/year by using leverage and low interest rates. 🙂 For those who are interested in the details, here’s how it’s done. Step 1: Borrow $10,000 from the bank at 3% annual interest rate. Step 2:… Read More »
Sherritt Restructures its Debt Earlier this year Sherritt International, a Canadian mining company, announced plans to extend its debt maturity by 3 years in order to weather the current commodity downturn. Out of the $720,000,000 debt that will get the extension, $5,000 of it is owned by me. 😀 A couple of years ago I purchased some Sherritt… Read More »
Gradual Change According to the U.S. government, the country only grew 1% in Q4 of 2015. But that’s still better than Canada. Our GDP up here only increased 0.8%. It doesn’t feel like the economy in either country is going to pick up any time soon. Personally I don’t mind slowing down or even contraction. Slow economic times is a natural… Read More »
Investing in Air Canada Bonds Don’t expect to eat anything fancy when you’re flying because you’ll just be getting plane food. In last week’s blog post it showed that I had over $7,000 of cash saved up. I usually don’t like to have idle money doing nothing. But it’s hard to decide what to buy when everything appears to be overbought lately. However as… Read More »
I might lose my entire bond Bonds are usually safer than stocks. But it’s also possible to lose a lot of money in bonds if we’re not careful. Last year I blogged about buying $5,000 of Sherritt’s high yield bonds. I made this decision based on the attractive 8% annual yield! 😀 Sherritt International Corporation is a mining… Read More »