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If you talk to even a few Vancouverites about real estate, it won’t take long for you to hear the statement, “Vancouver is an island,” in defense of Vancouver’s extremely high house prices. Vancouver developers have been wildly successful at selling Vancouverites this concept. It goes like this, Vancouver is…
The Canadian economy used to stand on multiple legs, including a wide assortment of commodities, from wheat and grains, to copper and gold, to oil, all the way to car manufacturing and financial services and real estate. But one by one these legs are getting knocked out. As it stands…
Every year, people begin with high hopes and celebrations, expecting the coming year to bring them good times, prosperity, and of course, happiness. Sounds good, but it’s not working out that way for Canada so far, just ask Stephen Harper, he’s probably having the worst year of his career, if…
There’s a term used by investors called a Blow off top. It refers to the one last surge a market makes before coming crashing down to reality. It’s usually an impressive event, adding double digit gains in mere weeks or months to investor’s portfolios. It leaves everyone feeling downright exuberant,…
Canadian real estate has only two cities left standing, Vancouver and Toronto. Don’t tell Torontonians or Vancouverites that though, they think the entire country is still booming. That’s natural, everyone projects their own reality onto the world. If their life is good, the world is good, and vice versa. Back…
But this time is quite different from 2008. Oil hasn’t crashed due to a financial panic or economic collapse, it’s just crashed. We’re finding out more and more though, like a dwindling demand, oversupply, huge increase in production from shale producers, etc. And lastly, because unlike every other time in…
Many have heard the term, “Sovereign Wealth Fund,” but its meaning is elusive. Sovereign wealth funds are funds of capital used by nations for investing. Roughly 70% of them are created by oil producing nations, which normally enjoy excess cash due to their oil revenues. This cash is put to…
It’s becoming increasingly clear that there are serious problems at Statscan, Canada’s statistics agency. In 2014, they released jobs numbers which were suddenly abysmal, far below the average, then they retracted them and replaced them with more normal numbers, some say a little too normal. In retrospect, it looks as…
Today’s FOMC meeting was a stunner to the markets. The Federal Reserve has been saying they will raise interest rates for months now, but nobody actually believes them, because, as everyone knows, the economy isn’t anywhere near as strong as the FED says it is. For the past 6 years,…
When you talk about Vancouver, most people think of expensive housing, beauty, and maybe a very high Asian population. These are all true, but Vancouver has another notable feature which most aren’t aware of. It has North America’s highest per capita gay population. Per capita, there are more gay people…
Vancouver is A Rainforest
Vancouver ranks as the #2 rainiest city in the world, next to London. The measure used is “most days…
2015, The New 2008
It has been 7 years since the financial crisis of 2008 gripped the world, although it still makes the…
Stanley Park at Vancouver
Vancouver’s beauty is multi-faceted, where most cities have one or two unique features that sets them…
Vancouver’s Movie
Industry
Once dubbed “Hollywood North,” Vancouver’s movie industry has a long history and impressive resume…
Commodity Prices Have
Crashed
There are a number of sure-fire ways to know the economy isn’t doing well. These are time tested,…
Sovereign Wealth Funds
Many have heard the term, “Sovereign Wealth Fund,” but its meaning is elusive. Sovereign wealth…
Suspicious Canadian
Employment Stats
Since oil crashed in 2014, the Canadian economy has been reeling. Yet that wasn’t the start of Canada’s…
Tarsands Will Continue
Producing
In a recent article by the Globe and Mail, an oil analyst explained it this way, “production of oil…
The Makeup Of
Vancouverites
Vancouver is Canada’s largest west coast city, sitting on the Pacific, nestled into a range of mountains…
Bank Of Canada Rate
Decision Serves As
Warning
The Bank of Canada isn’t in the habit of suddenly changing course on its monetary policy, or making…