Greater Fool – Authored by Garth Turner – The Troubled Future of Real Estate

.    By Guest Blogger Ryan Lewenza .

Thankfully, I never caught the gambling bug. I’ve never been to Las Vegas, nor have I ever gotten much of a rush from gambling, despite growing up in a city with a large casino...

Today’s lesson is a simple one, kids. Bad news is sometimes good news. Actually, quite often. Like now.

The US economy is losing altitude. Fast. Debt is swelling. Tariffs are hurting. Social support programs are wilting. The war is costing a bundle. Allies are shrinking away. Washington has been both weaponized and gutted – meaning Iran can hack local water sys...

As regular addicts will note, our resident moaners took the bait in yesterday’s jingoistic, maple-slurping defence of our beloved Dominion, and argued the opposite.

“Canada is broken,” they cried, “because we can’t afford a house.”

First some facts.

Fact: the home ownership rate in Canada, excluding the far north, is 68.4%. The Rock is the highest...

Bay Street was awash in party hats and whoopee whistles again on Wednesday as the TSX soared.

By lunch it has hit the second record high in as many days. For the year to date, Toronto stocks are ahead 13.7% (as this is written, not by AI) and the gain over the past 12 months is an outsized 31.5%

Compare that to the mighty S&P 500 – ahead merely 23% i...

Fed boss Kevin Warsh: the bond market just lost some respect. .   By Guest Blogger Scott Booth .

Alright, let’s talk about the bond market.

The yield on long-term treasuries (30 years) recently crept through the top of its multi-year trading range and pushed up near 5.25%.

Haven’t seen that since 2007.

Apparently, the Bond Vigilantes wa...