Economy

A few days ago, I posted an article on the dire situation currently being experienced by General Motors and their massively under-funded pension plan.  Recently, ……Read More

Interesting research by Kenneth Rogoff, Carmen Reinhart and Vincent Reinhart takes a look at 200 years of public debt overhang episodes where public debt-to-GDP levels ……Read More

Royal Bank of Canada Economics recently released its Housing Trends and Affordability research for the first quarter of 2012 outlining how the affordability of Canada's housing market ……Read More

We all know that the Fed's primary purposes are to keep inflation in check, to support maximum employment and to moderate interest rates.  Most of ……Read More

One news item that I have found particularly interesting in recent days has not been covered all that heavily by the mainstream media.  To me, ……Read More

Over the past five years, we've all heard stories from the United States regarding the use of residential real estate as an ATM.  That story ……Read More