Economy
The World’s Central Banks Living on Borrowed Time
The central bank of central banks, the Bank for International Settlements or BIS has recently published its Annual Report for 2012 – 2013. In this ……Read More
Business
Economy
Extreme Energy, Extreme Implications: Interview with Michael Klare
If oil and gas is a profoundly dynamic phenomenon, then so too must be environmental risk and conflicts over natural resources—and we are not getting ……Read More
Economy
The Jobs Gap
An interesting "gizmo" (for lack of a better word) by the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institute gives us an idea of just how big ……Read More
Economy
The Fed and QE – Success or Failure?
Now that the Federal Reserve is considering when to "taper" its purchases of mortgage-backed securities and Treasuries, it's time to take a look at just ……Read More
Economy
CEO Pay and Growing Income Inequality in America
As a shareholder in a wide variety of companies, both Canadian and American, I'm well aware that it is annual meeting time for the majority ……Read More
Markets
Number of S&P 500 Companies Reporting Negative Guidance a Red Flag
Standard & Poor’s, the credit rating agency, believes the likelihood of the U.S. credit rating being downgraded in the near term is less than 33% ……Read More