HAVE LEGISLATORS LOST THEIR MARBLES?

​During my early years living in Canada, I adopted the tradition of playing marbles on the playground at the first sign of Spring. Marbles was a game but also serious business. Marbles were our currency. We collected them, traded them and invented numerous games to win them from each other. The social hierarchy in my…

IS BITCOIN WORTH THE RISK?

​I want to follow up on my recent column regarding cryptocurrencies, and for the purposes here I will call them all, Bitcoin. Given the rising popularity of this new asset I feel there are a few things people should know before making a decision. Let’s begin with how you might actually own it. Bitcoin ownership is…

YOU WILL LOSE SOMETIMES – IT’S OK

What is risk? The dictionary defines it as the possibility of loss. Sports fans understand risk. Even the best teams lose games. When the Tampa Bay Buccaneers won Super Bowl LV this year, no one complained that they had lost 31% of their regular season games. It is the final result, not the occasional losses…

FOCUS ON YOUR OWN FINANCIAL JOURNEY

The flight from our California office takes me on a route travelled daily by thousands of others. Last week while enroute I was alerted to a Gulfstream G3 jet passing above me. I was flying my normal 300 mph but the G3 was doing closer to 500. I watched the gap between myself and the…