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Oh Canada! With the strongest economy in the G 20, we really are the true North strong and free! Our banking system has been used as a model around the world. During the financial crisis, our banks took some losses yet remained relatively stable. And as of late, our income [ READ MORE ]
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard Premise (from the NY Times review) The sciences of human behavior can provide us with tools for making changes in our lives—tools that are more effective than “willpower,” “leadership” and other easier-said-than-done solutions. The authors explain a couple of fundamental principles of psychology and distill from them concise [ READ MORE ]
No doubt we’ve seen some very volatile markets over the last couple of weeks. Despite this though, the TSX is up over 60% from it’s bottom of March 9th 2009. The S&P 500 is up over 78% in the same time frame. These are all incredible Index returns in just 60 weeks. [ READ MORE ]
Thursday May 6th, traders breathed a sigh of relief when the Dow ended the day down 348 points. On any other day, this would be terrible! But today was special. Around 11:40 am Pacific time, the Dow suddenly plummeted by a thousand points as the result of a trade that, according to the rumour [ READ MORE ]
Our Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced new rules Today aimed at protecting real estate investors from overextending themselves when mortgage rates rise. He met with several major Canadian lenders to discuss the potential “Real Estate Bubble” forming in Canada and decide what additional safeguards could be put into place to prevent over speculation. “There is no evidence [ READ MORE ]
Article by Peter Schiff, Euro Pacific Capital Over the past three or four years a strange phenomenon has developed in the global investment markets. With some exceptions, many asset classes, in particular domestic and foreign equities, commodities, and foreign currencies have tended to move in the same direction on a day to day basis. The mega-correlation [ READ MORE ]
The Fed’s “Exit Plan” Is Just Another Secret Gift To Wall Street The Fed is planning to detail its “exit plan” this week, the WSJ says. This exit plan is the means by which the Fed will gradually reverse the tremendous stimulus it is still pumping into the economy and financial system. Written by Henry Blodget via [ READ MORE ]
SINGAPORE (Commodity Online): Globally renowned commodities expert and investor Jim Rogers says world’s focus in the coming years is going to be on agricultural commodities and food prices. According to him, the prices of agricultural commodities and food are going to continuously rise in the coming years. “Commodity prices are going to shoot up. The challenge [ READ MORE ]
Article Extracted from Texas Straight Talk A weekly column This past week we celebrated the end of what most people agree was a decade best forgotten. New York Times columnist and leading Keynesian economist Paul Krugman called it the Big Zero in a recent column. He wrote that “there was a whole lot of nothing going on in [ READ MORE ]
Now more than ever, people are looking for certainty. What’s happening in the markets? What will happen with real estate? What jobs offer the most security? Governments around the world have jumped to the rescue, bailing out industries and reforming legislation and expanding at an ever increasing rate. Too many people have a sense of [ READ MORE ]
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