Markets
Excessive Risk Taking in a Low Volatility Environment
While like many others, I'm not a huge fan of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), in preparation for the September 20th, 2014 meeting of the ……Read More
Business
Economy
America’s Stalling Housing Market
One graph from The Urban Institute's Housing Finance Policy Center gives us a good clue about why the improvements in the American housing market seem ……Read More
Markets
Canada’s Shale Boom: More To Come In Montney
In the world of a constantly changing oil and gas environment, the Montney shale basin is the sleeping giant that holds the key to accelerating ……Read More
Economy
The Federal Reserve Plays the Blame Game
The Federal Reserve finally has it all figured out. A brief paper by Yi Wen, Assistant Vice President and Economist at the St. Louis Federal ……Read More
Markets
The Benefits of Ending Currency Manipulation
Since the United States trade balance turned negative in the early 1990s, the situation has improved very little, except during the period since the middle ……Read More
Economy
How Healthy is the Construction Sector?
Spending on construction, while up from the depths of the Great Recession, is still just about at its pre-recession levels, particularly when one looks at ……Read More