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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.
Can rice save your wet smart phone?
An amusing take on whether the rice treatment – covering your wet phone with grains of dried rice – actually works.
Four questions you must get right to retire well
Topping the list: Are you saving enough?
Lessons from a smart saving senior
Meet Richard T., a farmer who saved well for retirement but chose to live a simple, frugal life. A credit counsellor wants us to consider him as an example of how to spend conservatively. It's a timely message because seniors are the demographic with the highest growth rate in borrowing.
Those awful real estate seminars
Toronto real estate agent David Fleming spoofs real estate seminars that "teach" people how to make money flipping properties.
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