Every week, I go through a whole lot of reading material to keep myself informed about what is happening in the markets and things that affect me from a personal finance perspective. Here are some of the stories I’ve been following lately:
- TD Bank doesn’t think there is any housing bubble in Canada. I happen to agree.
- Canadians, please remember to file your taxes on or before May 2, 2005. Tax software like QuickTax or TaxWiz gets the job done quickly and painlessly.
- Check out Forbes Magazine for Ten Laws of the Modern World. I wish Prime Minister Paul Martin read up on The Laffer Curve before deferring recent tax cuts to large corporations (Instead, he was most likely brushing up on his Machiavelli).
- Oil slipped more than 4.5% yesterday to under $52 (and is trading below $50 today), mere weeks after Goldman Sachs and CIBC predicted of $100 oil (The CIBC report is available here). Au contraire, says this report, it will trade between $26-$30. Predictions are a tough business to be in.
- I finally got around to organizing all the blogs I read daily.
- Exactly 100 years ago, Albert Einstein published five papers that literally ushered in the modern age. Einstein is quoted as saying that compound interest is the greatest mathematical discovery of all time. Save some money, invest it today and get compound interest working for you.
