Credit card issuers try to entice us to choose theirs over the competitors by offering up points and rewards for every transaction we execute. The points, they …
Saskatchewan: A Great Place to Live – June 2020
Saskatchewan: A Great Place to Live. People in this province like their brick and mortar stores. When the pandemic lockdown began to lift, we quickly …
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Beware the Flashy Leader
Dan Barnett moved to Lake Tahoe, Nevada after a career in Corporate America where he ran businesses for companies such as Pillsbury and Nestle as well as …
Tracking Consumer Spending, Rent Payments and Payrolls
There’s nothing like a crisis to spark some new ideas. One of them is how we gather up economic information. Before the pandemic hit, we were satisfied with …
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Wallets Flew Open in June
The retail store is not dead. After the COVID lockdown, many Canadians learned the intricacies of shopping on-line, doing curbside pickups and so on because …
Less to spend, more to save
It is something of a return to the good old days. Forty years ago, the average Canadian put roughly 20 per cent of their monthly paycheque into savings. In …