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Scary Money Talk

Yes this week we had lots of scary stuff happening, including Ontario having municipal elections and some companies announcing their results for the quarter. In France there was lots of hoopla still about the moving of the retirement age for their National Pension to 62, but isn’t 62 then new 47? With November looming on the horizon (that’s on Monday folks), the Christmas season is braced to grasp hold of your wallet with a death grip that won’t let go until March of 2011!

This week the topics I covered included:

I figured I might get a reaction from folks with my post Financial Bondage, but not much was said at all. You put pictures of handcuffs and talk about thumbscrews, and nothing, really.

I did however get quite the response both here and on reddit.com on my post Banking on Sunday, evidently I hit a nerve asking why banks should be open on Sunday? I thought I was being clever coining the phrase Impulse Banking evidently I wasn’t.

evidently I wasn’t. Financial Indiscretion simply pointed out how the slip of a lip can sink a ship.

CPI turtles up again” was written mostly by Stats Canada pointing out Inflation continues it’s slow methodic eroding of your take home pay.

For a little light hearted fun I posted the video about the 1987 stock market crash with Louis Rukyser but no one seemed to care.

The week in the Personal Finance Blogosphere was calmer than most but there is some relevant posts from other folks in the Personal Finance world:

Other Bookkeeping



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“ A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.“ Author: Robert Frost



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