Carrick best reads: Old cars, ugly houses help you retire rich

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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.

Old cars, ugly houses help you retire rich
This blog post talks about plugging the major money leaks in your life – cars and houses.

They steal everything from Rolex watches to pizza
Here's a list of the favourite purchases of scammers who steal credit card data.

The myth of the conservative female investor
An analysis of how it is that women came to be understood as being more risk averse than men, and how this pattern may change as more women get comfortable as investors.

How to bring equality back to expensive housing markets
Economist Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel prize winner, suggests increasing property taxes on expensive properties to subsidize lower-income people.

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