Posted By The print edition of today’s Financial Post (June 10, page FP9) is running the first of a series of seven articles by me entitled “The Seven Eternal Truths of Personal Finance.”
Eternal Truth No. 1 is Live below Your Means.
Note there is also a short video accompanying the online article, and a growing number of comments below the piece.
Here is a preamble I wrote for it:
Series Rationale: One of the most experienced personal finance writers in North America is the Wall Street Journal’s Jason Zweig. As he wrote here after writing his 250th Intelligent Investor column, he confessed that there are only a handful of personal finance stories out there:
“I was once asked, at a journalism conference, how I defined my job. I said: My job is to write the exact same thing between 50 and 100 times a year in such a way that neither my editors nor my readers will ever think I am repeating myself. That’s because good advice rarely changes, while markets change constantly.”
In this seven-part series, I look back on my two decades plus of writing about money to distill it all down to these “seven eternal truths.”
As far as I know, the second instalment will run a week from now.
