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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.
Secrets of a safecracker Meet Ken Doyle, safecracker. His job is to open safes when the owner forgets the combination or dies. And, yes, breaking into a safe is way harder than it looks in movies.
Getting real about real estate Add the Christian Science Monitor to the list of U.S. publications warning about a potential real estate bubble in Canada.
How markets can make and then break you Making a few successful stock trades can be thrillingly addictive, says the author of a new book called The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk Taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust. Just don't delude yourself into thinking you've got the markets figured out.
Anyone need a new online broker? A blogger gives a quite favourable review to the online brokerage RBC Direct Investing after transferring his account from Scotia iTrade.
And here's my take on the best and worst online brokers.
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