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
Business
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
Economy
The Beveridge Curve The Job Mismatch Conundrum
A little-discussed graphical representation of the U.S. employment picture provides us with a very clear idea of just how different the recovery since the end ……Read More
Economy
The Evolution Of The Oil Weapon
In the age of derivatives, swaps, and electronic money transfers, a new form of warfare has emerged: financial warfare. Recently, the US has passed sanctions ……Read More
Economy
Explaining the Current Low Economic Growth Scenario
Since the end of the Great Recession, American economic growth rates have been quite modest, particularly when compared to historical levels as shown on this chart: ……Read More
Markets
Monsanto’s Past and Our Food Supply
As most of us are aware, Monsanto is a major supplier of the world's food through its corn, cotton, canola and soybean seed (germplasm) business. The company ……Read More