Daily Archives: October 19, 2011

Yields too high to be true

Investment marketing promotes nonsense much of the time. One major component of this surrounds expected income withdrawal rates and return expectations. Advisors or managers routinely promise too much and ill-informed or wilfully blind clients buy in, usually to their financial … Continue reading

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CBC television degrades itself

When I was growing up CBC television was the gold standard of Canadian journalism: professional, balanced, tolerant, intelligent discourse. When I first began appearing on CBC radio as a young lawyer discussing constitutional issues of our Charter of Rights I … Continue reading

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