Japan Travelog: Part 3. Personal Finance

Banking You may be aware that some political parties and union advocates have argued that, to develop Canada Post’s viability, financial services should be offered at post office branches. I am not sure how common that is in other countries, but Japan’s post offices have long...

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Japan Travelog: Part 2. Transportation

Above: One of the shinkansen (新幹線), pulling into Fukuyama Station, Hiroshima.   Rail Transportation My wife and I each bought three-week Japan Rail Passes. These passes, which can be purchased for one or two-week periods as well, allow access to the entirety of the Japan Railways (JR) system,...

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Japan Travelog. Part 1

My wife is from Japan, two of our four children were born there, and I have spent about 10 years there in total. That makes it an important country for us to visit, which we are doing again for the first time since COVID came...

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Investing is Solved!

“Them’s fightin’ words!” Or so a character might say if I was writing a script for a 1950s Western. Nevertheless, some in the stock picker’s camp might take offence at the assertion in the title of this blog post. This seems to suggest that there...

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Help! I’m too Risk-Averse to Invest

Being Cautious With Your Money For years your friends have been telling you to invest in the stock market. You resisted, insisting that High-Interest Savings Accounts (HISAs) and Guaranteed Investment Certificates (GICs) were all you needed. Besides, you already had some money in the stock market...

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