Economy
The Painful Impact of Ultra-Low Interest Rates
We are all quite aware that we are living in an ultra-low interest rate environment thanks, in large part, to the creative efforts of the ……Read More
Economy
Economy
Canada’s Healthy Banking System Fact or Fiction?
Since the beginning of the Great Recession, Canadians (and the rest of the world for that matter) have been bombarded with propaganda from the Harper ……Read More
Economy
The World’s Growing Pension Pains
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
Economy
The World’s Debt Crisis: How Long and How Hard?
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
Economy
Canada’s Housing Unaffordability Problem
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
Economy
The Longest Unemployment: Where Is Mr. Bernanke?
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