Currently, analysts are forecasting S&P 500 earnings to rise 13% yoy to US$275/share next year, but this is based on current tax rates of 21%. If tax rates were to be cut next year, then this could ...

R’s a bank economist who may also end up as a burning effigy outside the offices of Generation Squeeze. She’s just proven, categorically, concretely, statistically, that the kiddo moaning, weeping and ...

First, the greenback is soaring globally because of Trump and what FX traders expect he’s going to do. That is, simply, to step on the gas. This reversed a months-long decline in the US currency and ...

Nurse Jiggles is back from the spa with newly-painted talons. The clinic doors have been flung open to the huddled masses in the parking lot. The melodic snap of latex gloves fills the air. And we’re ...

Daily this blog is deluged with bot comments promoting crypto. Lately they’ve been supplemented with the fanatical enthusiasm of Bitcoin fans calling people like me dinos and dinks. They all get ...

Last week Malcolm Melville lost his career. Deservedly so, says the body which polices people in the financial advisory business. For misappropriating client funds and then providing false statements ...

I didn’t see it, but apparently the chief economist of the Canadian real Estate Association called me a troublemaker. Or a maverick. Or merely pathetic. At least one of those I wear with pride. Why ...

The total cost of the American dream is no small sum—$4.4 million—exceeding the average lifetime salaries of both men ($3.3 ...

Recently I razzed a guy for wanting to send his five-year-old to private school when he clearly can’t afford it. I asked why he’s doing it. “Is your kid that special?” He was appalled. Apparently ...

Who needs reporters, anyway? Apparently not the Toronto Star, since they just run Re/Max press releases and stick a byline on. This might explain why the country’s biggest publishing outfit is getting ...