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Overpriced Vancouver Homes
Posted on 16 April 2012.
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Canada Housing Bubble – Part 2
Posted on 10 April 2012.
From the previous post of the Canada housing bubble part 1, we showed that Canadians are stretched far beyond the limits of debt, with debt-income levels at similar levels to the United States before their housing collapse. However, the million dollar question is, for how long can this last? Before we can answer that question, […]
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Canada Housing Bubble – Part 1
Posted on 08 April 2012.
Real estate in Canada in recent years has seen some attractive appreciation despite the 2008 crash of us real-estate price. This trend of higher home prices has continued, especially for western provinces of Canada. Although, higher home price has been seen in other parts of the world, most notably; China, Australia and the UK. Although, […]
Posted in Housing Bubble22 Comments
Rich Asians Buying Real Estate By Helicopter
Posted on 30 March 2012.
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Effects of Low Interest Rates – Part 1
Posted on 26 March 2012.
Lowering interest rates can potentially boost economic activity as it increases both speculation and exports by devaluating the currency. Its effects, are artificial and temporary, at best. New growth caused by cheaper money must come from somewhere, and as I pointed out in another article “Fiat Currencies” this money comes at the expense of the […]
Posted in Housing Bubble, US Dollar Collapse425 Comments
Why Unions are Bad – A Quebec Case Study
Posted on 08 March 2012.
Unions are considered advantageous to the worker, since their main functions include pushing for higher worker’s salaries and benefits. This, unfortunately, is an illusion: the extra jobs that must be created to administer the unions and the power that some unions acquire outweigh any benefits to the worker in hindsight with the whole local economy. […]
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The Flow of Money into Gold
Posted on 11 February 2012.
The first thing I learned in my Thermodynamics class as a young engineering student was that energy can neither created nor destroyed, only transferred. During the course of my research, I have seen how this concept applies equally to wealth: Wealth is neither created nor destroyed, it is only transferred. Depending on the current environment, […]
Posted in Gold and Silver794 Comments
Economic Forecast for 2012
Posted on 11 January 2012.
As I stated in my previous article titled “Will there be a QE 3?”, weak market data coupled with negative market sentiment is being reflected in the stock market. 2011 was a dismal year for most stock investors. The chart below depicts the 2011 rate-of-returns for different asset classes. Also, our governments may decide to […]
Posted in Gold and Silver, Housing Bubble, US Dollar Collapse28 Comments
Economic Reasoning; A Two-Faced Coin
Posted on 08 December 2011.
What benefits a ‘part’ but devastates the ‘whole’ is ultimately detrimental to all components of the entity. A government policy that benefits one group of society while undermining the economy as a whole is destined for failure. To understand economics all interactions among all groups must be accounted for; the impact of a policy on […]
Posted in US Dollar Collapse1,687 Comments
Will There Be a QE3?
Posted on 25 November 2011.
Quantitative easing. The irony of such a concept is that to the uninitiated in economics, quantitative easing would be perceived as something good for our system, when in reality it undermines our economy by preventing it to function as a free market. A quantitative easing program is but a more sophisticated way of saying “money […]
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