Economy
The First Steps to Ending Currency
While I don't want to sound like a broken record, it is becoming increasingly clear that the Federal Reserve, other central banks and governments around ……Read More
Business
Economy
Canada’s Housing Affordability Demographia 2016 Edition
Over the past few years, I have waited anxiously for Demographia's annual "state of the housing market affordability study" formally known as their International Housing ……Read More
Markets
Corporate America The Profit Recession
Now that the end of the earnings season has arrived, it's looking increasingly likely that the United States has entered a profit recession. Corporate profits ……Read More
Markets
T. Boone Pickens On Obama Oil Tax: Dumbest Idea Ever
The Obama administration's proposed $10.25 per barrel oil tax adds up to approximately $32 billion a year, and critics are coming out of the woodwork ……Read More
Markets
What are Credit Default Swaps Telling Us About the Economy?
Credit Default Swaps (aka CDS) are one of those little understood (by Main Street) but highly imaginative products brought to you by the creative minds ……Read More
Economy
Negative Interest Rates Caught Between and Rock and a Hard Place
Throughout the six year history of this blog, I have occasionally posted articles on negative interest rates, a monetary policy that seemed utterly far-fetched back ……Read More