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The best of the Web on money, markets and all things financial, as chosen daily by Globe and Mail personal finance columnist Rob Carrick.



The High Cost Of Free Stuff

An analysis of how supposedly free stuff can sometimes cost us bigtime.



ETF Pile-On

The Canadian Couch Potato blog investigates concerns that exchange-traded funds are causing instability in the stock market and pose risks to individual investors. This issue gained prominence last week when a U.S. Senate subcommittee held hearings on ETFs.

California Nightmare

The golden state's finances have turned to, well, let's just say they're in really bad shape. Read all about it in this Vanity Fair article by Michael Lewis, one of the great financial writers around these days (and author of Moneyball).



Take My Advice

A veteran financial adviser with a big firm talks in this video about an unusual problem: While she offers financial planning to clients, but can't get a lot of them to sit down long enough with her to actually get a plan going. Talk about short sighted.



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