Gold is also benefitting from inflation concerns, as well as insulation from Trump. Data last week showed underlying inflation is sticky, and expected to rise. So maybe the Fed won’t be dropping rates ...

Canadians aged 18 and older can contribute to a TFSA each year up to the annual maximum. The initial contribution limit in ...

Time to get real about your personal finances, given what may be coming. We all know the threats. It’s a dodgy world at the moment and the best way to insulate yourself is to either become a nun or a ...

Tomorrow’s inflation report’s expected to be a yawner. Stuck in the mid-2% range. The central bank won’t be jacking or hacking rates for a while. Maybe all year. The housing market will sit on life ...

Bad Bunny aside, last week’s Super Bowl was a dud. I should have heeded the prediction-market betting, which early on pegged the Seahawks as a massive favourite, and switched to the Olympics. But a ...

Days ago it was planes. Trump would act to crush our aviation industry. This week it’s bridges. In fact, THE bridge – the Gordie Howe $6 billion masterpiece which leaps over the Detroit River and is ...

The nation’s second-largest but most self-absorbed housing market tanked last month. You can’t blame the auto sector. There isn’t one. You can’t fault a populist, pugilistic, Trump-baiting government ...

Imagine Waterloo, Saanich or St. John’s disappearing. Just poof. They all have populations close to 120,000, which is the number of employed people that vanished from the face of our Dominion last ...

Today the Canadian dollar was assaulting the 74-cent level. Oil was up another 1%. Gold added $114 an ounce, surging to $5,295 US. Bitcoin swelled by $700 a thingy. All that because the US president’s ...

Garth will post his Monday commentary as soon as the snow dogs permit.

As a major winter storm barrels towards southern Ontario with temps only decent people from Saskatchewan can survive, the deep freeze has already hit the housing economy. In fact, the words to ...

“The Canada that you know is gone dude, nobody under 30 is taking up arms to defend this melting pot.” The comment was posted here yesterday – obviously from a person under 30, probably male ...