Announcements

The Toronto Star had a great post on the US financial institutions that benefited greatly from bailouts but for some reason aren’t returning the favor.
Nancy Zimmerman (Money Coach) is thinking of buying a house on impulse – go and give her some advice!
Remodeling This Life wonders where time went now that her kids are about [...]

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Penelope Brazen writes a great blog which can sometimes be painful to read because of the things she shares.  This post about why honesty is the best policy (my title) is the most honest and painful one so far.
Money Grubbing Lawyer talks about the renovation butterfly effect.  This is when you improve one thing in [...]

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Big news in blogworld last week – Gather Little By Little which is one of my favourite blogs was sold and purchased by none other than The Financial Blogger.  GLBL was run by Larry who has been a pretty good friend to me over the last couple of years – he has been very helpful [...]

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Just a few links this week since I’m not able to get on the internet much this week.
The best links
Amateur Asset Allocator says that Buffett’s record doesn’t mean that the efficient market hypothesis is wrong.
Thicken My Wallet had 2 great posts

The Hail Mary school of investing – This is when people gamble on fallen stocks [...]

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Happy Canada Day everyone – today’s roundup includes some blog highlights and a whole pile of links – all Canadian of course.
New Canadian Blog Spotlight
There have been a number of new blogs on the Canadian scene over the last little while so I thought it would be fun to take a look at some of [...]

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Once again, Four Pillars is honoured to included in the annual Globe and Mail Best Money Blogs competition.  How we made the list is beyond me, but I’m very glad that Rob Carrick felt that we were worthy.
You can vote for us and 4 other blogs by scrolling down the bottom of the G&M Money [...]

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Last week Not The Jet Set took the time to post a rebuttal to my “Is Dave Ramsey a Financial Expert?” post.  I think this is the first time someone has actually created a post based on one of my posts so I was quite flattered.  NTJS is clearly a big Dave Ramsey fan so [...]

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Welcome to the “Four Pillars” edition of the Carnival of Debt Reduction – lots of good debt reduction articles along with a few other financial posts.

The Four Pillars of Mike’s kitchen floor (aka the “editor’s picks”)

Jeff Rose presents Should I Do a Debt Consolidation Loan? posted at Jeff Rose.
The Canadian Finance Blog submitted a [...]

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Saturday night I had the pleasure of meeting Preet from Where Does All My Money Go -  he and Mr. Cheap came over for some Thai food and a few beers.  It was a lot of fun and hopefully we’ll do it again soon.
Top referrers and stats
May was a pretty big month for this site [...]

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Ok, my combined title is a bit misleading.  Today is the first day that analog tv signals no longer exist and you have to have some sort of cable, satellite or digital box in order to watch television.  I have no idea who this change might affect since I suspect most people already use digital [...]

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Blog Showcase – Weakonomics
I haven’t featured any individual blogs in quite a while but I’ve been reading Weakonomics for a while and I have to say that I’m really impressed by this blog.  The author (Phil) is smart, creative, funny and undoubtedly good looking.  In other words – the complete opposite to anything you’ll find [...]

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We went to the Toronto zoo yesterday – it was pretty good but since our kids are so young, I don’t think they get much out of it.  It can be pretty expensive, however we used an Aeroplan gift card so it didn’t cost us much.  I was telling Frugal Trader that I thought a [...]

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Yes, it was two years this month when Four Pillars got started. It’s been a lot of fun – Mr. Cheap and I have become pretty good friends since combining our blogs and we’ve cranked out quite a few posts (710) since then.
I wanted to thank our regular readers and commenters (12,700 comments) since [...]

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The Don Jail had an open house this weekend for the public – it will be open for last time before renovation into office towers.  We went to check it out however the lineups were unbelievable (4 hour wait) so we left without seeing it.  The jail is available for bookings until October so I’m [...]

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On Monday, May 25 at 2:00 pm there will be a live webcast sponsored by Questrade discount brokerage which features blogging superstars Frugal Trader of Million Dollar Journey and Jon Chevreau of the National Post.  If you want to read a more detailed description of the panel then here it is.  Michael Hainsworth of BNN [...]

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Strange week in the news last week – the government ordered the car companies to reopen talks with the unions.  I find it quite ironic that these car companies are so poorly run that it takes a bloated government to tell it that more cuts are needed.  On the other hand since wages are not [...]

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Another great weekend – it’s so nice to be able to take the kids outside without having to burrow through a huge pile of snowpants, mittens etc.  Mr. Cheap dropped by on Saturday afternoon for a while so we took my son to a local park.  It started to rain a little bit so we [...]

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Some great weather this weekend – it is a bit rainy today but yesterday was just fantastic (until the hurricane at dinner time).  We went down the beach and hung out for a few hour – a great day.
Best post of the week
Kristy from Master Your Card works in a bank and she shares the [...]

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The Links
Cash Money Life had a pretty good post explaining why getting an MBA is no longer my goal.  I had considered this at one time – even wrote the GMAT.
Another MBA post – Financial Nut wonders if an MBA from Harvard is really that good?
Moolanomy wrote about a scam chimney sweeping service that was [...]

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