Naysayers constantly claim that commodity prices are due to decline, and in fact, have not climbed…
Canada’s Business
The new old trend
Economists often refer to a “reversion to the mean” where trends go back to the…
Organizational complexity
In business and in government, there are too many cases of management consisting of mismanagement.…
A new role
Now that we are just about at the peak of student enrolment at our post-secondary institutions,…
Mixed results
Over the past year following the onset of the recession, investors and speculators have scrambled…
The biggest worry
It is difficult to determine the biggest threat to our economy at this time. There are so…
Left out
Those of us who are middle-aged or even older increasingly are being left out of the mindset of…
An evaluation
For quite some time managing other people’s money has been a very profitable occupation,…
Rising costs
As we go through life we find that our cost of living rises exponentially. Clothes cost more.…
At long last
After eons of being treated as second class citizens (or worse), women at long last are being…
Media problems
There is a common lament in the media sector: circulation is either flat or declining slightly,…
A new focus
As a result of a new focus, children’s television programming now appears to favour younger…
Ambush marketing
Given the slump in consumer spending, marketers have been taking innovative steps to stimulate…
Telltale signs still missing
While many view recent events as turning points that indicate an economic recovery is underway,…
The great ‘unknown unknown’ explains the market chaos
What basically has gone so amiss in the housing market? Of course, primarily it was the rapid and…