Quotes of the Day

While bonds are clearly less volatile than stocks, they can still lose value during periods of rising interest rates. That's why conservative investors also look to savings accents and GICs for safety. It's true you won't lose your principal with these investments, but even they're not without risk. The silent killers of all investment returns are inflation and taxes, which can reduce the real return on "safe" investments to zero, or even turn them negative. [2021] - Dan Bortolotti

In 2000, researchers in Japan found that high consumption of green tea delayed the average age of cancer onset by 7.3 years and reduced breast cancer recurrence. Green tea extract supplements were shown to reduce the incidence of colorectal adenomas by over 50 percent in small pilot studies. In prostate cancer, green tea extracts block the progression of high-grade precancerous lesions. These studies are promising but highly preliminary, but green tea is one of the few chemopreventive tools that is a low-cost, natural food with no negative side effects. [2020] - Jason Fung

The first step to improving airway obstruction involves maintaining correct "oral posture". It means holding the lips together, teeth lightly touching, with your tongue on the roof of the mouth. Hold the head up perpendicular to the body and don't kink the neck. When sitting or standing, the spine should form a J-shape--perfectly straight until it reaches the small of the back, where it naturally curves outward. While maintaining this posture, we should always breath slowly through the nose into the abdomen. [2020] - James Nestor

When trading, one definitely should look at the larger time frames to get a better idea of where to put proper stops. One also can use the smaller time frames to time trades and get out with profits or smaller losses. [2003] - Marcel Link

An RRSP loan placed as a second mortgage on one of our properties with lots of equity has been the biggest source of renovation funds for us. Usually we can double our money on a renovation-so a $10,000 investment becomes $15,000 to $20,000 in value fairly easily. In other words, even if we pay $1,200 to borrow that $10,000, we usually make at least $100 per month more in rent and add between $5,000 and $10,000 in value from that money, making it a huge return on our investment. [2012] - Ian Szabo