Author: Richard

According to the Globe and Mail the Canadian dollar is getting too popular. Ms. Sutton noted that the Bank of Canada is now the “lone hawk” among the major central banks, citing some form of stimulus from the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan and the

I caught the last bit of B.C.’s “Carbon Talks” the other day and was quite surprised at the response to what I deem to be a very important question. “If a carbon tax simply raises the cost of carbon here at home, causing business to move their business to countries

I’ve seen a notion floated several times in the past few years with the increasing instability in the middle east that if there was a price shock in oil due to that instability, Alberta’s industry would get the direct benefits. A person I follow tweeted: Perhaps this middle east tension

So I took almost a month of hiatus from well, pretty much everything. Personal circumstances on top of daily perpetual stupidity is quite likely the cause – I don’t really know. Sometimes things just get so crazy and intense you just stop caring altogether. You have to, to survive intact

This is going to be another short post as a lot of the trends I’ve been writing about over the past few months are now starting to materialize and set the stage for future trends. However, notable events are still notable events. The Council on Foreign Relations has released a

Don’t count on it, despite: Mark Carney says he’s willing to blow the whistle on misbehaving banks If that is true, you’d think he would start with our own: TD staff knew about $1.2B Ponzi scheme: U.S. judge Of course, it isn’t true, remember? “I think the impact could be

Today I am writing two posts as a brief exchange on Twitter has inspired some thoughts. @Min_Reyes, Samara’s top #cdnpoli participant was approached by a Twitter user apparently from The Hill Times which wanted to do an interview with her and also asked this seemingly simple question: just wondering if you feel

The drums of war are beating louder and louder each day and the credibility of those calling for more death and destruction, on all sides, quietly dwindles. Large and (what I can imagine) expensive P.R. war propaganda campaigns are being waged by everyone, the fog of war over Syria and

When will the central banks act? That seems to be the question on every investor’s mind. However, I would propose that the right questions to be asking are ‘If central banks were to act; what would be the result? Would it be worth it? and how long would it last?’. Over

Screenshot of the tweet in question CTV is doing a story on this right now, but I’d like to give a different take on what I see here. Here you are seeing direct interaction with his community by an upstanding police officer. I know I am often critical of the

Credibility. Credibility is what’s necessary to have the moral authority to govern or even to be believed and taken seriously what-so-ever. A person’s credibility is built (depending on what they are credible on) by having a track record of credible acts. A lack of credibility leads to a lack of

“Police” in Anaheim / Source: OCWeekly Well, I guess there is going to be some “economic headwinds” over the next few months. Thanks for the heads up, Obama. Four years into the financial crisis, trillions in easing, and now there is going to be some headwinds – but just for

I actually read some good news yesterday. It was actual good news, not the usual bullshit. Edmonton is going ahead with it’s “progressive” redevelopment plan. I say “progressive” because of the implied political undertones, it seems progressive has come to mean so much more than progress. I’d call this plan

Tonight I sat through Inside Sports to listen to Kerry Diotte’s arena argument. I don’t agree with Kerry that we are at the beginning of an economic boom, the reasons of which are heavily documented on this blog, but I do agree with most he said otherwise. What I really

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It just won’t go away will it? Here I was pretty well set to stop discussing it and wait for the inevitable “told-ya-so” moment years down the road and instead the debate has already heated back up. I haven’t written about the #yegarena on this blog and I hadn’t intended