Monthly Archives: May 2019

Industrial commodities and the Canadian Loonie

This clip offers a good review of the close linkages between non-exchange traded commodities (driven more by global demand than financial market speculation), the Canadian dollar and the North American economy. Lakshman Achuthan, COO of the Economic Cycle Research Institute, … Continue reading

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Danielle on The Financial Survival Network

Danielle was a guest with Kerry Lutz on The Financial Survival Network, talking about recent developments in the world economy and markets.  You can listen to an audio clip of the segment here. Listen to “Danielle Park – Tariff Distraction … Continue reading

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Impossible-to-repay loans are not legitimate financial services

As I explained in The indefensible predatory business of payday loans, criminal interest rate caps stood for many years in both Canada and the United States at 60%. The financial lobby had governments carve out workarounds in the last decade, … Continue reading

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