A McDonald's restaurant's drive-thru sign is pictured in Los Angeles April 4, 2011.MARIO ANZUONI/Reuters
The best of the web on money, markets an d all things financial, as chosen daily by Globe and Mail personal finance columnist Rob Carrick.
How McDonald's helps make chicken pricier
McDonald's is massive enough of a buyer of food products that when it adds chicken wings to its menu, as will happen in September and through the fall, chicken prices will start to rise.
A peptalk for the overly timid investor
Without at least some risk, you may not meet your investing goals and you may not stay ahead of inflation.
Rising rates bring payment shock for homebuyers
It's happening to some people in the U.S. market, where both rates and prices have been moving higher from the depths of the housing market crash of five years ago.
When a Canadian bank failed
A look back at the August 1923 collapse of Home Bank, which caused 60,000 people across the country to lose their life savings.
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