Monthly Archives: May 2013

Certainly not the end of the world, but Canada is moving into a natural period of correction for some of the commodity-fueled over-exuberance cast its way over the past 5 years. With GDP year-to-date cooling so far to a 1.6% … Continue reading →

Sometimes meaningful reform to reign in rampant self-dealing and corruption in the government and financial system can seem hopeless. And then something encouraging happens: last week on May 16, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IO) introduced in the US Senate, S. 985 … Continue reading →

With interest and rates in the basement–the zeal for yield has driven desperate capital into heinously over-bought interest sensitive equities (financials, REITs) even as the more industrial sectors (materials, miners, energy) have appropriately sold off with the slowing global economy. … Continue reading →