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  • Pros and Cons of Cryptocurrency as an Investment

    Decisions about investing your hard-earned money can be overwhelming, especially for first-time investors. You may find yourself mulling over options from Real Estate to the stock market to your neighbor’s promising startup company, wondering where to start. Theories of investment run from the extremely conservative “play it safe” approaches to the “high risk, high reward” […]

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  • How to Become an Investor – 5 Key Characteristics

    If you think the role of “investor” is out of your reach, you are wrong. Being an investor does not necessarily require the presence of a silver spoon in your mouth from birth, a fancy graduate degree from a prestigious institution, or a day job that is decidedly white collar. Investing can take on many […]

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  • How Do Cryptocurrencies Gain Value & What Impacts Crypto Valuations

    The crypto market is still a relatively new industry, and it can be difficult for novice investors to get their heads around effectively. Understanding what makes cryptocurrency gain value is tricky indeed. This digital currency exists in an extremely volatile market, with analysts trying to understand all of the pieces of the puzzle that make […]

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  • NFT 101: The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide

    NFTs are complicated. Blockchain is complicated. It is a relatively new technology that faces disruption after disruption. It is the place for innovators, but also scammers. What you will find below is my understanding of NFTs, an NFT 101 if you will, a guide to understanding NFTs. What is real and what is fake, the […]

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  • How to Present Data Better – Top 5 Tips with Examples

    In the world of PowerPoint, Prezi, Canva, Tableau, Looker, PowerBI and millions of other tools that should make organizing and presenting data easy, poor data presentation skills are incredibly common. And yet people generally don’t know how to present data. How many times have you heard the awful “Sorry, this chart is a little hard […]

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  • Real World Examples of Smart Contracts

    Many people think about bitcoin when they think of the incredible success that some currencies have enjoyed in the cryptocurrency game. However, Ethereum is the second-largest cryptocurrency in the world. While you could buy a single Ethereum token for about $1 in 2015, every token you bought would’ve later become worth more than $4000! And Ethereum achieved […]

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  • Top Crypto Use Cases Beyond the Hype

    Whether you love crypto or don’t understand it at all, you can’t deny the incredible growth that the cryptocurrency market has experienced. The world’s first cryptocurrency, bitcoin, was launched in 2009. In the few short years since then, bitcoin evolved into an entire industry, with thousands of different cryptocurrencies, and a total market cap worth […]

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  • Top Investments to Avoid for All Investors

    The internet is filled with advice on the best places to invest. Typically promoting some sort of mediocre offer, like low-yielding savings accounts. Honestly, if I see another “Top Investment Ideas” post with a savings account or a CD on the list, I will scream. So I thought why not lay them out in easy […]

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  • How to Invest in US Real Estate from Canada

    International buyers who invest in US real estate make up a considerable chunk of the total investors in the country. After all, international buyers buying “only” 107,000 residential properties in one month is considered a “decrease” from the average numbers. From a Canadian starting point, you can invest a significant amount of your retirement assets […]

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  • Vanguard Dividend Growth ETF (VIG) Review

    Dividend growth or dividend appreciation is a powerful concept. With the right approach, your stock portfolio earns you more and more money every year. Among many dividend growth funds, Vanguard’s Dividend Growth ETF stands the biggest, VIG. In this article, I want to do a VIG review & deep dive into dividend growth funds in […]

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