Personal Finance and Money Management

My wife is a vegetarian, I am not. I was raised on meat and potatoes, or any variation thereof. So when we got married and we actually filled our crispers… well, I was a little shocked. Even more than that, I was surprised at just how much “some produce” cost. It wasn’t that I never bought any fruits or vegetables, it is just that I liked saving money and would only ever buy a couple of the cheapest apples and maybe some baby carrots. Let’s just say it took me a little while to adjust to how a vegetarian eats as well as shops.

One of the tricks that my wife uses to get cheaper fruits and vegetables is to take advantage of the summertime farmers markets. There are

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The instability of the stock market has investors looking for stable high yield investments. Canadian Royalty Trusts are a great alternative to traditional stocks.

A Canadian Royalty Trust, also known as a CanRoy, is a corporate trust that is set up to legally bypass high corporate taxes in order to funnel profits back to trust holders in the form of distribution payments. A CanRoy usually controls an operating company that uses the money invested in the trust to buy oil and gas producing properties. While approximately 40% of CanRoys invest in energy-related businesses, the remainder back other types of organizations.

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Know any “lucky” people? You might want to pass this article along to them so they don’t wind up in hot water with the IRS. With revenues declining for local, state, and federal governments, you can be sure the Tax Man will be on the lookout for his cut of your winnings, even if those winnings aren’t in cash. And you don’t want to end up on this list of people with tax troubles.

Being lucky may not be all it’s cracked up to be. Most people realize that winning a huge jackpot automatically means a large chunk of change goes to Uncle Sam, but gambling winnings can show up in the strangest of places. Like where?

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What do these numbers and words have in common?

•23,225

•16,000

•>100,000

•100

•17

•10.4%

•17.5%

•$6,000

•220 and 65.2%

•Texas Curriculum and the Canceled Prom

•31,000 miles

•Germany, Canada, France, Japan and Sweden

23,225 and 16,000

On Monday, March 15, 2010, California handed 23,225 teachers “possible” pink slips to public school teachers, indicating that it’s very likely their contracts will not be renewed for the 2010-2011 school year. If that isn’t sta

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