The Washington-based Peterson Institute is warning of a Trump win. The impacts on Canada would be palpable, it says, as a new age of Yankee protectionism emerges. Economic growth would be shaved ...

A common saying in finance is that “markets take the stairs up and the elevator down”, meaning that advances are typically ...

Numbers released this week by CREA confirm what we can all see. House sales are languishing and buyers are balking, despite ...

“My daughter and her husband, both in high paying professional jobs with a baby on the way are being lured with the siren of home ownership in the Vancouver area,” Jessica writes me. “I know, I know.

That’s the other shoe dropping. Yesterday the first hit the floor as Ottawa desperately unveiled 30-year mortgages and a ballooning of mortgage insurance to cover $1.5 million buys. No, houses are not ...

The S&P/TSX Composite Index (TSX) is having a decent year so far, up 15.6%, including dividends. While this is pretty good, it’s lagging behind the S&P 500, which is up 19.3%. There’s no denying the ...

According to the American Economic Association, 60% of us pick option 1), indicating that most of us prefer instant gratification. It’s human nature, it seems, to prefer happiness today versus ...

Affordability is terrible. The cost of properties has not dropped meaningfully, and a large swath of buyers has been removed from the game. Many of them, permanently. Sales volumes will increase as ...

CIBC now says there’ll be half-point drops by the Bank of Tiff later this year and early in 2025, with the CB rate settling at 2.25% in less than a twelve months (June of 2025). That will constitute a ...