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By Nolan Matthias on March 5, 2009 | No Comments
In our current economic climate, the disparities between the members of the economically dominant group and those who are economically and socially limited, is quite striking. (more…) -
By Nolan Matthias on February 23, 2009 | No Comments
CMHC has realeased its first quarter Housing Market Outlook. Highlights include increased sales and housing starts predicted for 2010, and steady interest rates for the first half of 2009. Download here.
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By Nolan Matthias on January 25, 2009 | 28 Comments
Please find below two mock ups of covers for my new book The Mortgaged Millionaire. I am looking for help picking between the two. There are two different psychologies behind these covers which I will reveal after I have received feedback.
Please leave your comments below, all commentators will be entered into a draw for a $25 Starbucks gift card (valid anywhere in North America).
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By Nolan Matthias on January 5, 2009 | No Comments
Galileo Galilei
In 1632, astronomer Galileo Galilei was ordered to appear before the Holy Office in Rome to defend his work, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems. His work compared the Copernican system, which theorized that the Earth circled the Sun, with the Ptolemaic system, the mainstream belief that the Earth was the center of the Universe. In 1633, Galileo stood trial for his dissenting beliefs and advocacy of Copernicanism.
Galileo did not stand trial because he had created the theory that the Earth circled the Sun; instead, Galileo faced condemnation because he had celestial evidence to support this theory. Galileo had proven, with the use of a telescope, that Jupiter’s four moons orbited that planet. He used this scientific observation to argue in favor of Nicholas Copernicus’s theory that the Earth circled the Sun, a theory which had been dismissed six decades earlier. Scientists and religious authorities had fiercely rejected Copernicanism, as a result of its conflict with contemporary religious beliefs and scripture, which upheld that the Earth was at the center of the Universe. (more…) -
By Nolan Matthias on November 8, 2007 | Comments Off
Here’s an interesting twist on marketing your property from a friend in Europe. Just goes to show that things are slowly moving towards a more technologically driven industry.
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