How does Moses make his tea? Hebrews it of course. 😀 But I bet Moses never got a chance to enjoy a 100 year old vintage tea that costs $600,000. This round disc of tea, which weighs 375 grams, is raw compressed pu’erh (a type of black tea.) It was recently imported into North America for the first time by a vintage… Read More »
The owner of the company showed up to the office one day in a fancy new sports car. One of his employees complimented him on the new vehicle. “Well,” replied the business owner, “if you set goals, show determination, work really hard and put in the long hours, I can get an even better one next year.” 😀… Read More »
I don’t know how much the world will change 5 years from now. After all, I don’t have 2020 vision. 😀 The future is always uncertain. But we can increase our probability for financial success by learning a wide variety of financial knowledge to become a well rounded investor. Being really knowledgeable or talented in one particular skill can also be… Read More »
Sheryl Sandberg thought she was making a mistake. The year was 2001 and she had applied for a general manager of business units position. Sheryl began to doubt if there was even a job there at all. The small technology start-up didn’t even have “business” units so what was there to manage? Furthermore the position appeared to be several levels lower than… Read More »
In self defence class we learn to fight… so that we won’t have to. Personal finance is very much the same way. 🙂 The best thing that money can give us, is the freedom to not worry about money anymore. Sometimes we can become so focused on our finances that we can easily forget about actually living a life. To… Read More »
Last month I blogged about investing in German real estate through a Canadian REIT called Dream Global. I chose this investment for its strong foothold in the European economy and for the consistent high yield. Normally dividends from foreign investments are taxed. However because I’ve bought DRG.UN in my Tax Free Savings Account it wasn’t really clear what would happen.… Read More »