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As we all know, and this pathetic blog documented daily, Covid brought 1% mortgages, urban flight, bidding wars, cocooning, ...
Trump concluded tariff negotiations with Vietnam. 20% across the board tariff, 40% tariff “on any transshipping” — when goods ...
Nirvana decidedly Eastern lotus position philosophy. Try Western Valhalla as in: You’re a good Dad Garth showing The Kids ...
“An average growth rate of only around one per cent for the first half of the year as a whole, and weak momentum heading into ...
Yesterday, common sense in Alberta. Today, insanity in Ontario. While there may be some kind of balance in Edmonton between ...
As Trudeau left, his approval rating was 16%. Now Carney’s is 60%, says Nik Nanos, the pollster. Poilievre’s numbers have ...
It’s been a decent first half for the equity markets despite all the headline risks and uncertainty (e.g., Trump tariffs, ...
With the S&P 500 and Nasdaq recently hitting new record highs, and the big potential of AI continuing to drive investor enthusiasm, I’ve been thinking about whether it makes sense to allocate a ...
Trump now hates Powell. Rather than pausing rates, he says, they should be slashed. Maybe by a full 2% or more (insane). The president wants explosive economic growth in order to pay for his fat tax ...
Currently today, there is some 20% of world oil production under sanction. Take Iranian oil off the equation and it’s 25%. Trade economics had December crude production at 3.3 mil barrels per day.
Gains being powered disproportionately by a small number of stocks is, in fact, true for most major indices. In the case of the Russell 3000, these mega-winners only comprise about 10% of the Index.