Daily reader for nigh on a decade (plus all the posts before that, to be sure I was up to speed).  I’ve had a harder time avoiding the comments lately, if only for the entertainment…” writes Andrew.

Bay Street was awash in party hats and whoopee whistles again on Wednesday as the TSX soared. By lunch it has hit the second ...

The relative appeal of TIPs compared to ordinary Treasury bonds will ultimately be determined by the Breakeven Inflation Rate and how inflation progresses over the time the security is outstanding. If ...

Leverage can make you wealthy. Leverage can make you poor. Margin debt in U.S. brokerage accounts reached a record US$1.5 trillion in June 2026, up approximately 49% from a year earlier. Those figures ...

The US economy slowed a ton, we heard this morning, and America is back full-bore at war. Yet the stock market surged at the ...

After behaving nicely, oil spurted 6% higher today. The US dollar fell, ours rose, gold lost, Bitcoin gained and Wall Street stumbled at the open. Some global markets have been pounded as a new US ...

A million families will renew their mortgage this year. Most will end up with a higher rate than they scored during the pandemic, back in 2021. For a while we all vexed about a mortgage cliff or ...

To feed an independent “Nation” of Quebec Francois Dagenais authored a vision “Development of a Food and Agriculture Policy ...

And I am. “It’s called the Debt Swap,” says the mortgage broker, who then describes the process, and provides an example. All ...