And now, the ‘nightmare scenario’ just drew a little closer.

By the way, virtually every major new condo development in the country’s largest market has been cancelled. Thirty thousand ...

Yes, I know. This pathetic blog’s reader survey is not scientific. It ain’t 19-times-out-of-twenty anything. No public opinion sampling experts were injured in its design. And it only appeared here on ...

When this steamy election campaign started we polled you. In a few hours five thousand people responded. The results front-ran and confirmed a slew of national surveys which followed. Cons tanking. A ...

Yesterday morning this pathetic blog told you to chill, stay invested, remember that crappy markets come along frequently, always pass, and that it’s not different ...

Todd’s folks live in Bowmanville, a bucolic little place full of busty fresh maidens, an hour’s commute east of godless Toronto. The house is a century-old, Ontario red brick edifice, its second story ...

One thing some people worried might come in last week’s budget was a hammering of HELOCs. Word on The Street was that home equity loan money would be verboten when it came to buying up investment real ...

Is it working? I mean, the misery. Are we there yet? The reason interest rates went up eight times is to increase suffering. Only by making life more expensive and difficult could the central bank’s ...

. Today I’m going to mix things up, moving away from my typical boring market analysis content and instead focus on the science aspect of this corona virus and pandemic. I’m fortunate that my brother ...

In 1988 I sought to be an MP. In those days nominations were hotly contested. Four qualified people were already in the running in my newly-created riding. The only way to win was to sell more ...

House prices are falling in the country’s biggest market. The government had nothing to do with that, of course. And things will unwind further after Wednesday’s bomb from the Bank of Canada. In a ...

The four most common questions I receive from clients are: 1) will the equity markets and my portfolio be up this year; 2) how I can pay less in taxes; 3) how do you maintain your boyish good looks ...