The Washington-based Peterson Institute is warning of a Trump win. The impacts on Canada would be palpable, it says, as a new age of Yankee protectionism emerges. Economic growth would be shaved ...

The main reason is the lack of technology in the TSX (6% weight in the TSX versus the S&P 500 at 31%) and its large commodity ...

A common saying in finance is that “markets take the stairs up and the elevator down”, meaning that advances are typically gradual and market declines are sudden. The chart below illustrates the path ...

“My daughter and her husband, both in high paying professional jobs with a baby on the way are being lured with the siren of home ownership in the Vancouver area,” Jessica writes me. “I know, I know.

Geoff lives in East Van. A doctor. His squeeze is an accountant. “We’re the kind of people that could buy in this moronic city,” he says. But they don’t. Instead they’re happy, wealthy renters. More ...

As you may have noted, the US seems willling to gamble $500 billion (yeah, new billions) on a rescue of the American financial sector. That suddenly made the recent selloff in the stock market, in the ...

“I have been following your blog for quite some time now,” says James, “and I am in a bit of a dilemma.” Fire away, reader boy. This is the blog of last resort. “I bought a town home in 2008 in the ...