Month: April 2010

The program Nova on PBS featured a documentary called Mind Over Markets this week. The subject: the raging battle between ...

After more than a year of steady gains, stock markets became suddenly volatile and tumbled sharply (relative to market action ...

Do you remember the excitement and hoopla surrounding peer-to-peer (P2P) banking in the U.S. just three years back? Borrowers flocked ...

You have to admire the Fraser Institute for its knack in generating buzz around its research reports. Case in point ...

The Bank of Canada decided to keep rates steady but clearly signaled that the period of exceptionally low interest rates ...

The Big Short is Michael Lewis' engaging tale of a handful of investors who saw the madness in lenders offering ...

Investors owning significant U.S. property need to be aware of changes coming to U.S. Estate Taxes (and you thought keeping ...

In a paper titled Life Cycle Investing and Leverage: Buying Stock on Margin Can Reduce Retirement Risk (paper available here), ...

Canadian Business magazine featured an article on why buying a house is a bad investment. A reader pointed out some ...

The authors of this slim volume need no introduction. Burton Malkiel's A Random Walk Down Wall Street is a classic ...