Monthly Archives: October 2011

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 →

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 →

Nassim Taleb, author of “The Black Swan” and a New York University professor, discusses recent bank earnings and their plague on the global economy as well as his concerns about the OWS movement.  Watch the Bloomberg interview here. Banks are staging … Continue reading →