Days ago it was planes. Trump would act to crush our aviation industry. This week it’s bridges. In fact, THE bridge – the ...

House sales in Montreal (the second-largest market in Canada) dropped 15% last month. Single-family home deals were off 17%.

The nation’s second-largest but most self-absorbed housing market tanked last month. You can’t blame the auto sector. There isn’t one. You can’t fault a populist, pugilistic, Trump-baiting government ...

They all have populations close to 120,000, which is the number of employed people that vanished from the face of our Dominion last month. The labour force dropped by this astonishing number, so even ...

Number 10 Who needs cash. Farmers NEED CASH so they do do some cash cash no receipt. However when an expense is a farm ...

It was a solid start to the year, with the S&P 500 and TSX gaining 1.4% and 0.8%, respectively, in January. We pay close attention to January’s performance because it has historically offered insight ...

Long ago (the autumn of 2023) I told you about Joel Sussman, the conspiracy dude. He spent a career in the travel business before having an epiphany – that they’re out to get us. “They” turn out to be ...

Investment managers tend to pay close attention to what Central banks are doing. Yawn. Nothing to see here. Both the Bank of Canada (BoC) and the Federal Reserve (the Fed) kept their respective policy ...

Enough Trump. Gaza. Greenland, Mexico. Panama. Canada. Enough drama and politics. All the erudite, well-padded old farts (and the young ones, too) who come to this pathetic blog need a reminder of how ...