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		<title>Is personal finance a to do item or an appointment?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I used to have a good memory and, umm&#8230;.where was I going with this again?
&#8230;seriously, I found that this year the to do list has its limitations. It is easy to jam dozens of items onto a to do list and never get to most of them. In other words, time is not being made [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Could too many financial products be ruining your finances? Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today’s post is a continuation on the effect of choice on our personal finances. Yesterday’s post dealt with how the paradox of choice impacts on our finances generally. Today’s post deals with the effect of too much choice on asset allocation and costs.
When an issuer launches new mutual funds or exchange traded funds, this is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thickenmywallet.com/blog/wp/2010/03/10/could-too-many-financial-products-be-ruining-your-finances-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Could too many financial products be ruining your finances? Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I first took up running, I went into the store, looked at a wall of specialty shoes- stability, control, neutral cushioned, performance etc. etc.- and just blanked out. Were my feet so screwed up that I needed a special shoe? What if I bought these specialized shoes, at a whooping cost of $200, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thickenmywallet.com/blog/wp/2010/03/09/could-too-many-financial-products-be-ruining-your-finances-part-1/</link>
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		<title>Condos are eligible for the home renovation tax credit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Congrats to Veselin who won a free copy of the QuickTax tax preparation software. 
As many Canadian taxpayers know, the Home Renovation Tax Credit (HRTC) was a one year tax credit for eligible home renovation expenses incurred between January 27, 2009 to February 1, 2010. The 15% credit applies for eligible expenses between $1,000 to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thickenmywallet.com/blog/wp/2010/03/08/condos-are-eligible-for-the-home-reno-tax-credit/</link>
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		<title>Life and finance lessons from the Vancouver Winter Olympics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I normally don&#8217;t post on Friday but I wanted to remind readers today is your last day to enter to win a free copy of QuickTax tax preparation software. To win, please post a comment in this week&#8217;s post announcing the draw. Winner announced Monday.
The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics drew to a close on Sunday [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thickenmywallet.com/blog/wp/2010/03/05/life-and-finance-lessons-from-the-vancouver-winter-olympics/</link>
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		<title>What are these mysterious cash flow positive real estate vehicles?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For anyone who is interested in investing in real estate, one undoubtedly runs across individuals or groups who speak or write about cash flow positive joint ventures or some other variation of this phrase linking real estate, passive income and investment returns.
The pitches tend to have a familiar refrain: there a generalized notion of positive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thickenmywallet.com/blog/wp/2010/03/04/what-are-these-mysterious-cash-flow-positive-real-estate-vehicles/</link>
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		<title>Balancing active management &amp; passive management</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Life has little absolutes- death, taxes and change come to mind- but, yet, the discussion between active management vs. passive management assumes that one absolutely has to be in one corner or the other. Either one is an active portfolio manager in an attempt to outperform the market or one makes as little decisions as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thickenmywallet.com/blog/wp/2010/03/03/balancing-active-management-passive-management/</link>
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		<title>Why do small businesses fail?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although small business starts appear to be consistent regardless of the economic cycle, many people are forced into entrepreneurship during downturns. Some will succeed. Others will fail. Why a small business succeeds or fails is often a subject of great debate and academic research.
As a general comment, economic conditions, in and of itself, is not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thickenmywallet.com/blog/wp/2010/03/02/why-do-small-businesses-fail/</link>
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		<title>Free stuff! QuickTax tax preparation software</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The good folks at Intuit have provided to me their QuickTax tax preparation software (standard version). The software includes up to 8 returns and allows for importing of data from Ufile and other tax software. Retail value is $39.99.
If you want to win a free copy, simply post a comment. Canadian residents only are eligible [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thickenmywallet.com/blog/wp/2010/03/01/free-stuff-quicktax-tax-preparation-software/</link>
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		<title>Who really makes money predicting  the end of the world?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nouriel Roubini﻿, arguably next to Ben Bernanke, is the world&#8217;s foremost media darling economist (to the extent any economist is appealing to the masses). It was Roubini who predicted the end of the global real estate bubble in 2006 and continues to believe that the worst is yet to come.  In March 2009 he predicated [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thickenmywallet.com/blog/wp/2010/02/25/who-really-makes-money-betting-on-the-end-of-the-world/</link>
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