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Suicides In Alberta Soar In Wake Of Canada’s Oilpatch Depression
Suicides In Alberta Soar In Wake Of Canada’s Oilpatch Depression Over the past year, we have extensively chronicled the tragic story of Alberta – Canada’s once booming oilpatch – disintegrate slowly at first, then very fast, into an economic and financial wasteland: “Canada Crude Contagion: Calgary Home Prices Drop Most In 2 Years” “Canada’s Biggest […]
“It’s A Bloodbath” – Here Is The Biggest Casualty Of Canada’s Recession
“It’s A Bloodbath” – Here Is The Biggest Casualty Of Canada’s Recession In the past year, we have extensively profiled the collapse of ground zero of Canada’s oil industry, Calgary, as a result of the plunge in the price of oil, in posts such as the following: “Canada Crude Contagion: Calgary Home Prices Drop Most […]
Here’s Why Housing Must be Propped Up
Here’s Why Housing Must be Propped Up If housing tanks, the last prop under the veneer of middle class wealth collapses. The Powers That Be have gone to extraordinary lengths to prop up housing by whatever means are necessary since the collapse of the housing bubble in 2008: the Federal Reserve has pushed mortgages rates down […]
Fraud, Fools, and Financial Markets
Fraud, Fools, and Financial Markets Adam Smith famously wrote of the “invisible hand,” by which individuals’ pursuit of self-interest in free, competitive markets advances the interest of society as a whole. And Smith was right: Free markets have generated unprecedented prosperity for individuals and societies alike. But, because we can be manipulated or deceived or […]
FED LUNACY IS TO BLAME FOR THE COMING CRASH
FED LUNACY IS TO BLAME FOR THE COMING CRASH This week John Hussman’s pondering about the state of our markets is as clear and concise as it’s ever been. He starts off by describing the difference between an economy operating at a low level versus a high level. He’s essentially describing a 2% GDP economy […]
Calgary Office Market Gets Crushed. Oil, China Blamed
Calgary Office Market Gets Crushed. Oil, China Blamed The office vacancy rate in downtown Calgary, the epicenter of the Canadian oil bust, could hit the vertigo-inducing level of 17.5% by the end of 2018, a new report by commercial real-estate firm Colliers International warned – and added some ominous clouds: “Given the current global macro […]
“Bernanke & Greenspan Have Destroyed America” Schiff & Maloney Warn “People Don’t Realize What Is Coming”
“Bernanke & Greenspan Have Destroyed America” Schiff & Maloney Warn “People Don’t Realize What Is Coming” Ali and Frazier, Laurel and Hardy, Mayweather and Pacquiao, Liesman and Santelli, and now Schiff and Maloney. Peter and Mike join clash of the titan-like to discuss their investment strategies and expose the charts the government doesn’t want you to seeas […]
Oil and Real Estate Bubbles in Canada: What Goes up Won’t so Smoothly Come Down
Oil and Real Estate Bubbles in Canada: What Goes up Won’t so Smoothly Come Down Five years ago, I noted how unsustainable Canadian economic growth is fuelled by debt, which is leveraged to increase the prices–and ‘profitability’–of assets like oil holdings and real estate. It might as well be called “phantom growth,” because it’s bound to disappear […]
Overvalued housing prices and how to read them: Don Pittis
Overvalued housing prices and how to read them: Don Pittis I was reading about baseball cards over the Christmas holidays and it made me think of Canadian houses. From the Bank of Canada’s warning to last week’s devastating analysis from Germany’s Deutsche Bank that claimed a 63 per cent overvaluation, it seems we are being told once […]
Why Chinese Growth Forecasts Just Crashed To A Paltry 3.9% – And Are Going Even Lower – In One | ZeroHedge
Why Chinese Growth Forecasts Just Crashed To A Paltry 3.9% – And Are Going Even Lower – In One Chart|ZeroHedge Up until a few years ago, conventional wisdom was that China would grow at nearly double digits as long as the eye could see. Then, however, something happened, and China’s 9% growth became 8%, then […]
