Economy
Downpayment Trends Is History Repeating Itself?
Recently released down payment data for the first quarter of 2015 from RealtyTrac shows us some interesting trends in what home purchasers are putting down on their ……Read More
Business
Markets
The Buffett Ratio and the Current Stock Market Valuations
In the mainstream media, those who contribute to the financial pages are starting to publish stories expressing concerns about the relatively lofty valuations in the ……Read More
Economy
The Freight Transportation Services Index and Future Economic Growth
Six months ago I posted an article that looked at one of the very few leading economic indicators that can be used to give us ……Read More
Economy
The Dark Side Of The Shale Bust
The fallout of the collapse in oil prices has a lot of side effects apart from the decline of rig counts and oil flows. Oil ……Read More
Economy
Busting The Canadian Bakken Myth
The financial pages of Canadian newspapers have been full of headlines lately announcing the potential of two large shale oil fields in the Northwest Territories ……Read More
Markets
Tobin’s Q What is it Telling Us About Stock Market Valuations?
In the 1960s, 1981 Economic Nobel Laureate James Tobindeveloped an interesting measure which gives us a sense of stock market valuations and whether the stock market ……Read More