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Get a LIFE Weekend and Economic Summit

June 19, 2009 REIN

There’s a great Real Estate Investment Network (REIN) event in Edmonton coming up soon, June 26-28th. Friday night starts with an economic summit with key speakers, some top Canadian economists and veteran analysts. You can download the PDF brochure here, or click here to register. The panel for the summit will include: Carl Gomez, Vice President, [...]

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Rate of Decline Slows Significantly

June 17, 2009 Statistics

Today’s edition of the Stats Can Daily showed the largest monthly improvement in the unsmoothed composite index in 30 years. The rate of decline of the leading indicator slowed markedly to 0.1% in May, the smallest of nine consecutive declines. The shift from a 0.9% drop in April to a 0.1% dip in May was the [...]

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Edmonton Still #1

March 9, 2009 Edmonton

I came across an article in the Edmonton Journal the other day about Don and why Edmonton’s a great place to invest in now. (If you want more info, go check out the Top 10 Alberta Towns Report.) Photo Credit: Rick MacWilliam, The Edmonton Journal It’s stuff that I’ve been hearing for a while because [...]

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We Can’t All Be In Debt

February 18, 2009 Economic Fundamentals

Stephen Gordon is a professor of economics at l’Université Laval and together with Nick Rowe writes the Worthwhile Canadian Initiative, one of the most informative reads on Economics news out there. He made a great point a while back that I keep forgetting to mention. Average Debt dosen’t exist. The debits and credits balance out. It’s a [...]

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Banks Agree? Not Bloody Likely

February 9, 2009 Statistics

After seeing how popular the last couple posts have been, I thought it’d be a good idea to post the rest of the GDP stats which make up the dataset. You can view this set (and the interactive verisons of the charts) online here. And just to summarize the data another way, here are three [...]

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RBCs GDP Forecasts – Some Handy Graphs

February 8, 2009 Statistics

RBC is my favorite bank when it comes to economics. Among other things, they do the housing affordability index, lots of forecasting and make it relatively easy to find the whole data set, together with some really great analysis. I’ve designed these graphs, as well as the Google Spreadsheets with the data to be easy [...]

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Economic Indicators – Your Responses

November 27, 2008 Economic Fundamentals

It’s been a day or so since I posted my survey on which economic indicators we should track. I’ve been tickled pink by the response, both on myREINspace and by those filling out the form. There have been 28 responses thus far, and some interesting trends have appeared. (There’s still time for even more responses. [...]

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