Canadian investors increasingly have been engaged in a simply outlandish tactic: placing…
Canada’s Business
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…
Not very meaningful
Our economy in North America depends to a great extent on official statistics, for the most part…
Not a good bet
According to conventional wisdom, it is accepted as a good bet that shares on the stock market…
Climbing aboard
It may seem peculiar to many in the present era, but there is underway a revival of the railway…
A new focus
Few would dispute that Canada’s neglect of the North has been shameful. Aside from Prime…
Deregulation nonsense
Widespread, financial turmoil dominated the recent presidential election in the United States.…