It’s my own fault, but I’m going to place a bit of the blame on COVID here – I’m watching too much TV these days. Too many movies. Too much news. Also… I’m getting kind of irritable. Ask my wife. I’m fed up with COVID. Fed up with not being able to connect with those I love in the way I used to. And fed up with the media. My latest frustration is how the media portrays … [Read more...] about Capitalism: friend or foe?
Arnold Machel, CFP®
Arnold Machel lives, works and worships in the White Rock/South Surrey area and has been writing articles for the Light Magazine for over 10 years. He is a Certified Financial Planner® with Visionvest Financial Planning & Services.
BC Provincial Budget – new rules on DTC eligibility
It’s is April 20 as I write this. Yesterday was federal budget day. I’m in BC and today is our BC provincial budget day. I have to ask: is it irony? Or do you think that it’s purposeful that our province of BC would hold their budget on April 20 – International Weed Day? There is much I could write about yesterday’s federal budget. Instead, I will home in on some small fine … [Read more...] about BC Provincial Budget – new rules on DTC eligibility
Bitcoin: digital currency
By now you’ve probably heard about this new currency called “bitcoin”. At the end of last year, one bitcoin was valued at US $29,111.52 (all bitcoin prices provided by coindesk.com). It more than doubled, peaking at an intra-day high of $61,556.59 in March of this year and at the time of writing is priced around the US $56,500 mark. Since its … [Read more...] about Bitcoin: digital currency
Musical shares: The long and short of short selling
For a month or so now, the news has highlighted something called short selling. This has been due to actions from a Reddit group who chose to manipulate the share price of a number of companies (GameStop among them) to hurt a number of hedge funds. To be very blunt about it, short selling is NOT a form of investing. It is a form of gambling, no different than a card game or … [Read more...] about Musical shares: The long and short of short selling
Crazy little thing called love: one Christian’s response to Covid
The great Warren Buffet is known to say that one of the magic secrets to his investing success is living a long time; a tangential way of crediting the wonder of compounding. So, one way that we can become wealthier is to simply live longer. Living longer is harder to achieve today than it was even just a year ago. At the time of writing the Health Canada website is … [Read more...] about Crazy little thing called love: one Christian’s response to Covid