The global push to spend at all costs has to end. The debt governments are accumulating to do so are toxic to future generations and stymying future growth. The G20 communique highlights the following messages, which is simply more of the same rhetoric. I’m not surprised
Our latest piece in the Globe & Mail explores the argument that stock markets must continue endlessly spiraling upward. Why? Because rates are to remain between negative and to low (which we agree with), and therefor there is no alternative to pure equity risk (we
I have suggested for years that zero and (now) negative interest rate policies that central banks have employed are stealing money from the savers to prop up the economy and it’s not working very well. One estimate I saw recently has transferred over 2 trillion
A week does not go by on Berman’s Call where we don’t get a handful of emails or calls asking how retirees can get a safe 4-6 per cent yield in their portfolios. The source of this question stems from the Zero Interest Rate Policies
Why work for a living when your house out-earns you? In a “truth is stranger than fiction” moment, the price appreciation of homes in greater Vancouver have produced more than the sum total of all work done by every single human being that lives in
So May is almost over, and most markets around the world are up, putting the notion of ‘sell in May and go away’ in question. The facts are simple, while there are tendencies of price behaviour at certain times during the year, it is by
You will start to hear about a head and shoulders pattern forming on the S&P 500 this week. I wanted to look at the pattern, what is happening in the market as it is forming, and the probability it plays out and what you should
Share Buybacks have been a very popular use of corporate profits in the past few years. By some estimates, they have “artificially” increased earnings per share by over 25 per cent in the past few years. This would suggest that if we factor in non-adjusted
The Bank of Japan will do everything to stimulate growth—but they will likely fail. According to the CIA world fact book Japan is tied with Germany for the highest median age population and has the oldest workforce. The average age of the workforce in Japan
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