Turns out A is a second-gen Canadian whose parents came here (when the locals were still toleratnt and welcoming) in the Eighties. “They did not have the know-how to teach me anything about investing ...

Yes, by bad policy. And thus we have a complex web of conflicting, uncoordinated, kneejerk, badly-understood policies that make everything worse, elevate conflict and fail to reduce prices. If we just ...

As asset-class heterogeneity and complexity increases and when price discovery gets less transparent, it creates opportunities which astute managers can exploit. In these instances, active solutions ...

Whoa, economist dude. Twelve figures starts at $100,000,000,000 – a hundred billion. Yikes. We haven’t seen red ink like that from the federal government since way back during the pandemic – when the ...

Down she goes. Both fixed-rate fivers and VRMs are in the 4.5% range. The Bank of Canada delivered its second jumbo rate cut ...

The bad news? A recession looms, for sure. The good news? It’ll be short. Shallow. Real estate will suffer. Financial portfolios will not. Inflation will continue unabated. But interest rates are near ...

Yeah, it’s not Bitcoin. But a balanced, low-vol, diversified, 60/40 portfolio has handed investors close to 10% this year. And it was 8.5% last year. The even better news is that there’s more of the ...

Last November the feds said they’d spend $40 billion more than they collected running the place. That would be added to the debt. In a best-case scenario, our non-financial Finance Minister added, ...

The weekend showed how fast stuff happens. Syria’s dictator and Putin’s buddy was sent packing. Outcomes unknown. Donald Trump told NBC he’ll pardon imprisoned J6 rioters, punish his political enemies ...

Half full? Half empty? Are things getting better or worse? Yes, 2022 sucked. Market losses. War. Inflation. Kanye West. Central banks. Mortgage rates. Danielle Smith. Wild boars. Nukes. Peak house ...

The central bank won’t touch interest rates for a while. That was confirmed Wednesday. Meanwhile one lender has hacked its variable-rate to 0.99% while a major bank has four-year money at a buck forty ...

Or maybe you actually bought the physical goods themselves: Chanel handbags, say, and doubled your money (+104%, according to ...