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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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Daily Statistics from Stats Can

May 12, 2009 Statistics

Having great statistics is a vital part of what I do, and I’m sure that it’s important to all sorts of investors. I need them to help understand the market, creating Joint Venture presentations, blog posts and other presentations I do.  One of my favorite sites is StatsCan (Statistics Canada). I’ve used the stats from [...]

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Edmonton Stats Updated

April 5, 2009 Statistics

I’ve finally updated my very popular spreadsheet of Edmonton Stats (with over 3,000 views). I should probably re-title it Edmonton Real Estate Values 1962-2009. Now it includes the real 2008 average value from the EREB, adding an 8th year with a negative year-over-year average price decrease. I’ve also updated the monthly prices with the Q1 [...]

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Canadian Stats, Right Now!

March 12, 2009 Statistics

Now there’s another simple place to find Canadian economic statics. The surprising part is it’s from the Canadian Federal Government. I suppose it’s our answer to the American site Recovery.org. The site is www.canadianeconomy.gc.ca and it starts with a nice simple dashboard for national economic indicators. The nice part is when you click on one [...]

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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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Great Graphs For Real Estate

February 4, 2009 Presentations

We all need access to good information to base our decisions on, and part of my mission is to share some good statistics with y’all. That’s why I’ve been compiling some statistics for you to use. However, just the numbers won’t help you. I’m including graphs, charts and other ways to help interpreit the information [...]

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