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With some careful planning and good investing, this Manitoba farm couple can be ready for retirement
Paul and Emma Thompson, as we’ll call them, both 50, have farmed in central Manitoba for a quarter of a century. The couple, whose names we’ve changed to protect their identities, have 800 acres they own personally and another 960 acres of pasture that their farm corporation owns. The corporation also owns 200 head of […] Read moreAndy is moving from covered calls to put spreads. Find out how he does it, and what it’s doing for him
As you know, I like to sell covered calls on some of the stocks I own. This is a rare strategy that is not understood by many, so they call it risky. I’ve had a lot of practice selling calls these past six or seven years so I figured it was time to expand my […] Read moreChina’s is researching thorium, as a replacement for uranium in reactors. Andy Sirski explains what this could mean, gives us an update on his portfolio
In this column I will touch on research China is doing on the use of thorium instead of uranium to run reactors to produce electricity. The U.S. did a lot of work on thorium back in the 1950s but the administration wanted to develop nuclear bombs so it chose to focus on uranium instead. Now […] Read more
