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New study confirms: insider trading common and largely unprosecuted

Posted on June 17, 2014 by Danielle Park

No surprise here. A detailed new study out of the Stern Business School and McGill University, examining hundreds of stock option transactions from 1996 through the end of 2012 finds that 25% of all public deals may involve some kind … Continue reading →

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TSX deja vu: once more unto the breach

Posted on June 16, 2014 by Danielle Park

It is a remarkable deja vu to behold: the Canadian stock market in June 2014 is once more within striking distance of its all time global-debt-fuelled-consumption-commodity-bubble-peak briefly seen 6 long years ago in June 2008. Four short months later, the … Continue reading →

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Time to retool the fuel

Posted on June 16, 2014 by Danielle Park

With WTI today about $107 and Brent about $112, it is fitting to review some basic facts about the unnecessary and crushing economic tax that is oil. The global economy was already slowing before the latest geopolitical tensions ramped fossil … Continue reading →

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