When the Doha meetings broke this weekend, Saudi Arabia would not agree to a freeze on oil production because Iran would not participate and vowed to sell as much as they could at any opportunity. This has basically been their stance for the past few
The Investment Landscape has changed – Will You have enough to retire in the new normal? Blackrock CEO Larry Fink’s latest to shareholders addresses some of the main topics of my current roadshow. Specifically the section titled: Changes to the investment landscape. Will you have
Stock analysts (bottom up) remain on crack. They almost always love their stocks and they basically get paid to tell a good story on why you should buy them. Very few are unbiased even after years of regulatory changes and the fact that they swear
This week on Berman’s Call: Leading Indicators: Credit Spreads and Bank Underperformance There is nothing more toxic to growth than too much leverage. We have said for years that the bond market is far smarter about the outlook for the economy than the stock market.
Wow! It’s the proverbial first day on the job for the new Government and they’ve spun possibly the biggest misrepresentation in budgetary history. Unfortunately most Canadians will not understand and thus won’t realize how dangerous such a distortion of the facts can be. Expressing Federal
Yet another reason why the current Liberal administration’s policies are based on scarcely more than bad math and a great head of hair. Then again, don’t blame Justin, they don’t teach the dependency ratio in school and they’re not the only government to find themselves
The financial industry has been male-dominated for a long time, but the tables have turned and women are poised to become more influential when it comes to money and financial decisions. Yet women still lose more sleep worrying about money than men, and in many
You work hard for your money, then you lose potentially more than half of it to taxes, and battle volatile markets to get it to grow. The last thing you want to do is lose it to fraud and scams. With that in mind, we’ve
Too late for this Federal budget, but something to think about when we get serious about fixing our economy in 4 years when tax and spend isn’t working: http://news.nationalpost.com/…/canada-second-only-to-france…
As we urged investors to see the opportunity in markets earlier this year, we’ve had a great bounce, but viewers ask – are we still in a bear market? In a word, yes. In a few more words: http://www.bnn.ca/Video/player.aspx?vid=828443