Millionaire on the Prairie

Personal finance for singles looking to finance their dreams.

This weekend, I happened across a wonderful video about building a cash machine to fund dreams. It was created by a YouTuber that I discovered about 2 months ago. She goes under the handle “The Dividend Dream” and I’ve learned a lot from her videos. The one that I’ve bookmarked in my Favorites folder is […]

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When you know better, you do better. Maya Angelou This past weekend, I celebrated a rather significant birthday. It was also the 30-year anniversary of when I started my investing journey. As I’m wont to do on my birthday, I considered where I was when I started investing my money and just how far I’ve […]

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Most investors are interested in a definitive answer to question of when is the best time to invest in the stock market. And for good reason. After all, no one – and I mean no one – ever wants to lose money. We work very hard for our paycheques. It stands to reason that you […]

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Yay! The time has finally come. You’ve opened your brokerage account and you’re ready to start filling it with money-makers. It’s time to ask yourself if you want dairy cows or beef cattle? Steers are grown to become beef. You buy the calves, grow them up, then send them to slaughter. If you’re very lucky […]

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There’s no doubt about it. Anyone who’s slightly aware of the news is hearing that things aren’t good, that we’re heading into a recession, that inflation is climbing, and all other manner of negative stuff about personal finance. You know what I want you to do about it? I want you to take things one […]

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Truth be told, retirement is a bank balance. People commonly think that of retirement in terms of an age. Traditionally, it’s been age 65 and lately it’s been cropping up to age 70. For a little while in the 90s, age 55 was the catchy second half of a very successful marketing campaign called Freedom […]

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For the past 2 years, I’ve been reading articles the lack of housing affordability and the impact of an empty-house tax. In short, fewer and fewer people can afford to rent property at current prices. This is troubling for a lot of reasons. Allow me to say that I’m not an expert in this area. […]

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