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You can learn a lot from Robert Kiyosaki in this video. He talks about the eroding U.S dollar and why when you save you are actually losing purchasing power over time.

Topics:

-Started physical silver collection (coins, bars)
-Paper silver / gold market unsafe
-U.S dollar devaluation / Fed printing money
-Hyper inflation
-2012 Year of the Dragon 1/2 oz coin - Royal Canadian Mint
-Bearish on NASDAQ for 2012

by Das Brain

This video has some really solid statistics about Canadian peoples debt, the 30% senior citizen’s retiring and the glut of homes that will be entering the market that is going to drive home prices down.

It talks about how corporations has filled peoples head with ideas of a lifestyle that most debt ridden Canadian cannot really afford. This is a must watch, it is a hard look at the reality of things and the coming hardships.

Professional writer and organizer Felice Cohen makes things work living in New York’s smallest apartment that is close to all amenities and only blocks from Central Park. She lives by the philosophy of “Don’t Aquire What You Can’t afford”, which I think is great. People buy and collect too much “crap” these days and it just piles up. Watch the video it’s cool.

Few days ago, I was browsing the FutureShop.ca and on the front page FutueShop was having this 1 Deal-a-Day Promotion and on March 7th the deal was this spectacular deal on a 15.6 inch Acer Laptop. To be exact it was a Intel Core i3 380M (2.53 Ghz) 15 inch Laptop with 6 GB of RAM and 500 GB of hard drive space for the low price of $499.99.

A greater number of Canadians feel that the economy is getting worse than last year. Now 20% up from 14% last year feel this way.

Some of the top concerns of Canadians are having enough money to retire, and improving personal finance. They feel that the Canadian economy maybe getting a little bit better by the government reports but at home things are getting worse, goods are more expensive (inflation), jobs are hard to find and people are still being laid off. So to the average Canadian, their personal finance situation really don’t feel any better.

The U.S puts out reports that the recession ended last year sometime, and the Federal Reserve say that they are going to do more “Quantitative Easing” to further stimulate the economy. The stock market responds by sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average well over 11,000. All this in my personal opinion is hog wash, it is just more U.S Government propaganda to make things seem a lot better than they are.

If there is anything the credit crisis over the last few years has taught us is that debt is bad, despite what financial companie’s try to tell you.  The other thing is that everyone has to really watch their spending.  Part of the monitoring of spending is those little things that you buy, like coffee, latte or a bottle of water here and there.If the economy continues the way it has been for another few years, you will most likely be forced to change your habits, especially if you are in heavy debt, you have no savings or if you are in a job that is at risk of layoffs.

1. Create A Balance Sheet

Begin and look at your net worth by collecting your most recent investment statements and going online to retrieve your current account balances.

Once you’ve documented your assets and subtract your liabilities, consider the following questions:

• Does any one financial asset consume a disproportionate share of your net worth?
• Are your assets properly insured?