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Alberta has already had it's real estate boom and the prices have been pushed close to the maximum already. There's no shortage of land there, it's just a matter of the construction industry catching up to the demand. Take a look in Sarnia Ontario. The real estate prices there are lower than...

I live in Canada and just purchased a camera from someone else in Canada. I had to buy it in US$ which Ebay then converted to CDN$ to charge to my credit card. Ebay always charges a poor exchange rate, usually about 3% more than the going rate. What should have been about $290 Cdn, they charged...

I agree, all due respect to the lives lost, Osama and his buddies only cost the US a few billion dollars by destroying a couple of 30 year old buildings. Bush and his cronies have wasted trillions or a thousand times that much with his response.

In Canada we already have a consumption tax to some extent. We're charged 7% federal sales tax in addition to income tax. It doesn't really hurt the poor at all. It's not charged on food unless it's served in a restaurant. It isn't charged on rent either. That would cover the majority of...

The simplest thing to do would be to get rid of income tax. You could replace it with a consumption tax and carbon tax. The consumption tax wouldn't apply to food and the first $500 a month spent for shelter to limit the impact on the poor. The consumption tax would encourage investment and...

Bill Gates created a solution of a common computer operating system and a problem at the same time in that it was a monopoly. I think a good idea for Bill would be to convert all the remaining shares that he has left of Microsoft into a charitable trust. Half of the dividends of the shares...

You could ask Nick himself, he posts on the Forum here under the username: NickBarings He seems quite friendly. I wrote and asked him and he says that he's the real Nick.

I'm on a high speed cable connection to the internet and I use Interactive Brokers data. This morning I keep losing the data connection from IB. This happens every couple of minutes for a few seconds. I'm not sure if this is IB losing the connection or if it is a problem from my internet...

I deal with Credit Union here in Canada but I haven't experienced any delays when I sent a check to IB. I'm very careful with my money and always cautious about banking fees and such. However that all goes out the window whenever I want to make a large transfer for my RRSP's or whatever. In...

A lot of people are afraid of buying a house without a realtor. However, if something goes wrong with a deal, the realtor has very little liability. He has no real interest for the buyer or seller. In most cases his biggest interest is to make as much comission as often as he can. The lawyer...

Nobody knows for sure what is happening with global warming and what the danger in the future is. We might have huge problems to deal with in the years to come, much worse than the floods in New Orleans. The odds are high that it is human activity that is causing it. This is a big gamble to take...

It appears that the Rothschilds are behind most of control of money and control of the world. They've intermarried over the generations so the family name isn't obvious anymore. This website has some interesting information about them...

Very interesting video, I believe it was made in 1995. Is there any information to update it?

I just watched a documentary called "Mardi Gras, Made in China": http://mardigrasmadeinchina.com/about_the_film.html The film compares the conditions of the people in China working for slave wages to make beads for Americans partying in New Orleans. I suppose the film maker's intent is to...

The stock will be popular in Canada because everyone sees how busy the stores are there. However this is probably already factored in the price of the stock. In order for the stock price to increase the company needs to continue to grow. However the market for Tim Hortons in Canada is already...

I remember hearing rumours back then that Mulroney made a secret deal with the US in order to get them to accept NAFTA. He made some kind of promise that he would keep the Canadian Dollar high for a period of time so the Americans wouldn't look bad by losing jobs to Canada. Perhaps he was...

Sierrachart has the capacity to put IB quotes directly into Excel and make charts as well. It might be worth looking at depending on what you want to do.

I think this is from October 2005: Microsoft stock has split a total of 9 times, increasing the number of shares, and decreasing each share's value by a factor of 288. If MSFT stock had never split, the share price today would be $8064.00 From this website...

You offer to buy Jeannette and call that a compliment? Here in Canada you would get slapped for that......Just kidding.

I couldn't tell you what your problem is but I use hotmail for all my correspondence. I use it with Outlook Express and on the web and find it to be quite reliable. I like it because it has good virus protection. I can use it on any computer anywhere. I also don't have to change my email...