J.Ford Financial Newsletter

If you've visited my newsletter page, you'll notice that I haven't posted anything in about a year.  As much as I feel badly for neglecting to add new information to my own site, I'm happy to be writing for a great online financial magazine: www.FinanceWorks.ca

It offers fantastic articles on a variety of topics from budgeting, to mortgages, to insurance (by me!), to travel and more. And now it's available in Chapters and Indigo stores across Canada as well as online. 

Bryan, the creator and ow...

As someone who is constantly watching the worldwide markets and business news reports, I sometimes feel like a ping pong ball: being hit back and forth between ‘it’s great’ and ‘it’s terrible’ versions of the same story.  I thought I’d show a couple examples of how analysts, experts, world leaders etc. conflict in opinions and change their stories over time. 

The Lost Decade

With the debt crisis in Europe continuing to plague the worldwide stock markets, there’s much ...

We live on a society that operates on credit.  Gone are the days of our grandparents who saved up and purchased their homes, cars, and everything they needed or wanted cash.  It takes a half a lifetime to own a home now but everyone understands the need to get on the property ladder.  Home ownership goes hand in hand with having a mortgage.  If you are talking to a neighbor or friend and they say they own their home mortgage-free, are you not shocked and wonder to yourself "How?"  But getting...