Borrowing Money Isn’t Your Sacred Right as a Canadian | Because Math

Special Guest, The Holy Potato.

Meet the Holy Potato aka John Robertson PhD. John is usually the smartest person in the room simply because he is a scientist and loves math. He shares his thoughts regularly on his blog Blessed by the Potato where he talks about financial literacy, spreadsheets, math, budgeting and the cloud of probability. Needless to say John knows his stuff and will make you see things differently.

The Holy Potato has actually joined us 3 times now on the #becausemoney podcast. Check out his appearances”

Ep08 “Borrowing Money isn’t Your Sacred Right as a Canadian” talking about statistics, retirement planning and borrowing money.

Ep14 “Why You (Yes You) Should Care About How Financial Advice is Regulated” in a rousing discussion with the panel and Noel D’Souza about how financial advice is regulated and if the government is doing enough.

Ep23 “Anonymous Advice and The Value of Simple” where we debate the merit of online anonymous financial advice and John shares some information from his new book.

John’s first book is the “Potato’s Short Guide to DIY Investing!” His second book “The Value of Simple” is going like hot cakes! HOT CAKES!

Check out the Holy Potato’s complete bio on his website

On this week’s podcast, we’ve coerced the holiest of spuds, scientist, and all-around nice guy John Robertson to take us to math school, to dig behind the headlines that scream “37% of Canadians are borrowing 13% more money than 43% of Canadians who aren’t”, and to generally be a deep thinking skeptic.

We’re talking about the hapless car loan couple that everyone else is, and – be warned – both John and Jackson have beards, and I’m pretty sure they’re going to bristle. Robb will say something wise and statesmanlike, and I’ll be laughing in the corner.

So… in other words, business as usual.

For your viewing pleasure, we have included a list of previous episodes.

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