I took the plunge this weekend and expunged my debts to the depths of the hell from whence they came. It was a tough move for some reason, even for a cold, calcu­lating accountant. Subcon­sciously, I held on to the debt in order to keep my asset balances high. Artifi­cially high. This is a bad […]

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The Conrad Black trial has been good theatre, and the latest coming out of Chicago doesn’t disap­point. Testi­fying at the trial of former Hollinger chairman Conrad Black, a former member of the company’s audit committee has testified that it kept watch over company finances for four years without any financial experts. Economist Marie-Josee Kravis, sat […]

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This struck me as sort of inter­esting, possibly useful, and probably a little compulsive. One blogger’s way of slowly using change is to carry the optimal number of each denom­i­nation of coin in his pocket. Everyone has coins they want to get rid of. I randomly thought of an easy way to carry change and […]

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