Some Canadian Linkstuff, ING Referral Code And Book Links

This week I did a book review on Mike Piper’s excellent intro to investing book – Investing Made Simple – I had suggested this would be a good stocking stuffer idea since most of the 4P readership seem to already have pretty good investment knowledge.  The links that were on that post were for Amazon.com – I didn’t realize until later that the book is also available on Amazon.ca which of course is better for Canadians.  So if you had clicked on the links and then gave up in disgust after realizing you were on Amazon.com then you can go back and try again if you wish.

ING $25 referral bonus

A while ago I wrote about the ING $25 referral bonus code a while back and wanted to mention it again.  Each customer only gets 50 referrals and they are going fast.  Last time I checked there were only…ummm…50 referrals left on my account.  So act quickly because they are going fast!    The code is 33089336S1.

Some Canadian links

Kathryn had a great story about how she almost lost a loved one.    The comments were quite interesting even if some of them were written by complete idiots.

Squawkfox is a crack pot crock pot connoisseur – go find out what to look for if you want to buy one. AnySquawkPot.

Ending the Rat Race thinks he’s getting a raw deal from Chapters.

Canadian Tax Guy has some resources if you are thinking of starting a business.

West Coast Woolies had some stats about H1N1/Swine Flu which should make you want to get the vaccine.

Blessed by the Potato who has the greatest header (image at top of site) in all of blogland – also explains why the H1N1 vaccine is pretty safe.

Investing Intelligently (who updates once a year) announced that he got laid off yesterday.  He also had a baby recently (congrats) so at least he won’t be bored.

Ray from Financial Highway thinks that financial literacy in schools is a good idea.

Get Money Energy has some information about income trusts and what to do about them before 2011 (when they turn into dust).

Brip Blap wrote a pretty neat post about how working overseas helped his career.  Steve isn’t Canadian but he would fit in well here so he makes the roundup.

The Wealthy Boomer relays a great story about a 17 year old who had a financial turnaround.  Very entertaining.

Michael James on Money did a book review on “Super Trader” and he said it sucks.

The Money Gardener says that Walgreen is recovering nicely from the flu.

Thicken My Wallet asks what does it mean when Buffett (yes, it has 2 “t”s) buys railways and India buys gold.  It probably means that TMW asks too many questions.    Wasn’t Buffett the guy who got a “great insider deal” on GM bonds a while back?

Shevy is thinking about Hanukkah.  Already?

Canadian Capitalist reports on the Globe and Mail top brokerage rankings.

Canadian Dream wonders if we still have a housing bubble.

Preet explains what sovereign wealth funds are and why you should be terrified of them.  Ok, maybe just he explains what they are.

Congrats to the Canadian Finance blog who had a little baby boy in October.

The Financial Bloggers wrote about Primerica IPO.  Mike has written a lot of stuff about Primerica – none of it positive!!  And Mike is a pretty positive guy…

Intelligent Speculator wants to know if hedged ETFs are good or bad?

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