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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 best economic quote of the week

October 6, 2008 The Economy

My favorite one-liner came from the meeting of the Economic Club of Toronto this morning. Trying to do an economic forecast in this kind of turmoil is a bit like trying to put a value on your house when the kitchen is on fire. – Douglas Porter of BMO Capital Markets

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Canada’s Real Estate Market Won’t Meltdown

October 4, 2008 The Economy

Benjamin Tal, who I’ve discussed before after his July 2008 presentation on the state of the Canadian and US economies to the Real Estate Investment Network, was finally quoted in some good context in a CBC article. (Hat tip to Gary McGowan and Don Campbell on myREINspace) It’s nice when the mainstream media publishes something [...]

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Benjamin Tal teaches me about SEO

September 4, 2008 seo

Benjamin Tal is a Senior Economist with CIBC World Markets. He gave a great talk on the North American Economy at the June 2008 REIN meeting which I blogged about this week. While I was poking around for more information the next day I noticed that he very seldom shows up in search results. In [...]

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Benjamin Tal on Canada’s Economy and Real Estate

August 31, 2008 The Economy

Benjamin Tal gave a  talk to the Real Estate Investment Network at a monthly meeting in June 2008. (Thanks to Radley at the Calgary Market Blog for pointing this out) This is the type of stuff I love, and it’s exactly why I’m a REIN member. There’s a lot of really solid analysis here, and [...]

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