When trends change, it usually takes some time for the general public to recognize what is taking…
Canada’s Business
Turning of the tide
Although unemployment remains stubbornly high and wage increases are scarce, corporate profits are…
Using cash
It is well known that companies in Canada are piling up cash. How that hoard is used remains an…
Hoarding cash
A perplexing problem is the huge hoard of cash that corporations are sitting on and why. The…
Unknowable
Most of us are aware of the hazards of making predictions; unfortunately, economic forecasting,…
Simply outlandish
Canadian investors increasingly have been engaged in a simply outlandish tactic: placing…
The aftermath
The lessons of history have been ignored by governments who have continued to maintain cheap credit…
Unintelligent intelligence
From time immemorial many have attempted to predict the future. In ancient Greece people visited…
Magic ingredient
What can we do to make the Canadian economy grow faster? Right now we should consider the magic…
An obsession
The current widespread trend of buying luxury goods has become almost an obsession, a curious…
Lower oil prices
According to Greek mythology, the one characteristic the gods resented was hubris, self-pride.…
Responsibility
There is a curious phenomenon nowadays when politicians pose heroically by admitting that they made…
An ‘elderquake’
In previous generations in a strict middle-class family, it was almost an axiom that children…
Bleak prospect
No one has been able to consistently predict the course of the stock market. However, one…
Irrational exuberance II
The North American stock markets continue to defy gravity, ignoring dire predictions that a Donald…