Yearly Archives: 2025

Surprise: financial conditions tightening into 2025

While the U.S. Federal Reserve cut overnight rates by 125 basis points since November 2023 (below on the lower right), the U.S. 10-year Treasury yield has risen more than a percentage point, touching 4.8% for the first time since October … Continue reading

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How Canadian prime ministers stepped down over the years

History offers valuable perspective on human systems and cycles. Political leadership is easy to criticize and hard to do. Pendulums swing, and so it goes. Revisit decades past in Canadian politics as prime ministers came and went and oversight of … Continue reading

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Risk-blind bets are all the rage

Risk complacency is evident in exuberantly priced assets. Stocks do not provide contractually prescribed interest payments or a return of principal date. Some pay dividends, but these are always at the discretion of corporate management and can and should be … Continue reading

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