Everyone would love to find the next great stock before the rest of the market catches on. Looking back, it seems obvious that companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Google, and Nvidia were destined ...

Days ago we dumped on the BC prem’s desperate election promise to tax unsold condos. It’s kneejerk, unschooled and achingly populist. People hate developers. So, whack ‘em. If it screws up the housing ...

Poor Mark. His dad died. Sad but inevitable. Not inevitable, however, was the bad decision the old guy made – to name both M and his bro (who lives in the UK) as co-executors of his estate. “I’ve read ...

Can you make real estate cheaper by taxing it more? If you’re a BC socialist, hell yeah. Let ‘em rip. So a Canadian government has just done what none had ever dreamed of before – punishing companies ...

Donald Trump loyalists (be they supporters, appointees or staffers) turning against Trump is nothing new: former Chief of Staff John Kelly, National Security Advisor John Bolton, Secretary of Defense ...

A few days ago the American president thought he’d help out his pal, Danielle Smith. After all, she’s in a tricky spot. That crazy referendum is coming in just a few weeks. Albertans will be asked ...

Some memories came back as I heard Mark Carney say “an extreme tail risk” of Donald Trump’s aggression toward Canada was a military invasion. In fact, we know our Canadian Forces – modest as they may ...

Trade can cause problems that the resulting revenue can’t fix. Most significantly are the environmental impacts. Near extinction of a tree species due to a disease brought to us through trade, Dutch ...