This may force the US Fed to raise interest rates to constrict inflation south of the border. If the US Fed raises interest rates to combat inflation in the United States, it will put pressure on the...
In the last decade $3.6 trillion has been spent on alternative energy. During this time, global energy consumption filled by hydrocarbons declined from 82% to 81%...
Everyone knows to buy low and sell high, however, what do investors actually do? The blue bars illustrate the amount of new money invested in the stock market. The orange line illustrates the...
This is why you protect yourself if you have short time horizon, and consequently, why you don’t look at your statement every day if you are a long term investor. To do so would be in my...
Everyone is cheering because inflation is creeping down. What people fail to realize is that inflation compounds. In 2021 it was 3.4%, in 2022 it was 6.8%, in 2023 it is projected to be 3% (the Bank...
This is the Canadian Participation Rate for young adults. Notice a trend? Considering that there are fewer of them compared to their grandparents and parent’s generations, the fact that their...
We all know the childrens’ fable. As children, we are told the morale of the story is to not cause alarm unduly. As an adult, we quickly realize that we want our children to alert us to...
Dramatic declines in the price of cottages. Not too long ago, families dancing on the line between comfortable and wealthy gobbled up cottages at super low interest rates. As the rules of planning...
Macro events are holding greater sway over stock prices in the last decade. This adds to volatility. It also exposes opportunities for good managers to find quality companies at reduced levels...
This is why diversification is important. Since the COVID crisis hit, a lot of investors had turned to Large-Value companies out of fear that the market would prove catastrophic for smaller and medium...
Watched Mackenzie’s mid-year outlook webinar and Dustin Reid believes that we may see another 25 basis point jump this year...
Graph shows Ukrainian wheat exports. You can see the effect the war is having on the 2023 numbers...
PMI is short for Purchasing Manager’s Index. The index measures the change in a multitude of key business components (ex: business output, new orders, employment, costs, selling prices, exports...