Greek Debt Causes Panic

On May 6th, 2010 the stock market experienced a momentary crash. In that brief span of time, a trillion dollars of market capitalization was lost, and many well-known corporations’ stock was reduced to trading at a few pennies.  While the event caused the market to quote unreliable prices for the stocks involved, there was no [...]

EFFECTS OF U.S. DOLLAR PARITY

On March 17th 2010, trading of the Canadian dollar rose to just over 0.992¢ in U.S. dollars, bringing thoughts of Dollar parity with the United States.  The problems of the United States dollar are well known and documented.  Their greatest problem is the historic levels of debt in the nation.  Deficit spending is rattling the [...]

IMPORTANCE OF GROWTH POTENTIAL

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Today we are going to look at what a good real estate investment looks like.  In today’s example we are going to focus on growth potential.  When you buy real estate for an investment, you need growth potential.  So here we are in Macao, China. 

Macao is the historical [...]

BANK OF CANADA CONCERNED ABOUT CONSUMER DEBT

The Bank of Canada released its bi-annual report on Canada’s financial system.  According to the report, [and yes, I agree with it] Canada has absorbed the shock of the global recession admirably and has made some initial re-organization in order to return the nation to prosperous times.  In fact, many elements of the Canadian economy have improved,  all except [...]

PROFITING FROM THE RECESSION

Now that the business cycle is in the downward part of the curve (the recession), we have to change our investment strategies. Here I will let you in on some tips to profit from this recession. I recommend if you haven’t done so already, please read my article from last year ‘Understanding the Recession’.

It’s important [...]