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The Great Famine – 21st Century Style

December 17, 2009 The Economy
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North America is home to a generation of people who have never experienced a recession in their adult lifetime. They’re between 20 and 30, much like myself. I remember when I was very young, my dad being laid off from construction during the recession which hit in 1984. He’s mentioned it before, but he was [...]

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Gregory Klump and the Canadian Real Estate Market Forecast

October 26, 2009 The Economy

This video is part of REIN’s Video Insider newsletter, and here’s some of my notes, plus the video. Gregory Klump is: – Chief Economist for the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) – Senior Consultant with CREA and CMHC – Contributor to the Economic Research Committee This is the 2010 Market Forecast and the 2010 Canadian [...]

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Former CIBC Economist Jeff Rubin on CBC’s The Hour

June 2, 2009 The Economy

Here’s the episode of CBC’s The Hour with George Strombolopolus with former CIBC World Markets Chief Economist Jeff Rubin. The folks at REIN kindly made it available.  Rubin wrote a book called Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller: Oil and the End of Globalization and it sounds like an amazing read. Jeff [...]

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The Crisis of Credit Visualized

April 1, 2009 The Economy

If you haven’t seen it yet, this is one of the best explanations of the credit crisis around. And now I want to get a Crisis of Credit T-Shirt. The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

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The Globe and Mail Drops the Ball on Subprime

March 14, 2009 The Economy

Last night I was surfing through Twitter and one tweet caught my eye. Mostly it was because it was in ALL CAPS which annoys me to no end, but the word ‘canada’ made me mildly curious. The title of the article is “Canada’s dirty subprime secret” and while I was considering a subscription before, this [...]

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IMF’s Charles Kramer about Canada Recovery

March 12, 2009 The Economy

The IMF is going to release it’s ‘Article IV’ report early next month, and Charles Kramer (IMF Mission Chief) and Marcello Estevao (his “Deputy in the IMF’s North America Division”) did a conference call to share the main findings. Here’s the three main findings (emphasis is mine). The bottom line is that Canada is positioned [...]

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International Financial Policy Reform and Options for Canada

March 10, 2009 The Economy

You’ll have to sign up for a free account, but the Conference Board of Canada wrote a pretty interesting (but almost 50 page long) analysis of what the international community is doing and/or can be doing to help stabilize the world economy. Click here to download the PDF.

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