Insights

Business is Moving Higher & Higher…
Reports continue to suggest that the world is moving along just fine if you can ignore the noise. Maybe a...
Musings from Mahone Bay
It’s a while since I wrote about Atlantic Canada. So I hope you will be gentle with me as I...
Making Media Sandcastles from Market Molehills
As expected, July’s market headlines continue to roar along like angry lions even as volumes are withering on the City...
Imagining the Day We Don’t Need Oil
After moving halfway through the year we’re looking more and more like the 2014 rendition we spoke of as 2018...
Like Water Off a Black Swan’s Back...
"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs...." – Rudyard Kipling The media continues to...
Space: Just Another Economic Frontier
A month or two ago, I wrote about the mind-bending, future altering impacts that SpaceX – the short name for...
What Market Monsters Giveth and Taketh Away…
The media hot air has all now been squeezed out of the North Korea (NoKo) summit in screeds of catastrophic...
The 1980s: Yesterday & Today
I remember back in the early 1980s when people were so worried about US President Ronald Reagan (who was known...
Young Bulls & Old Habits
How about this bull market that’s now being described as over nine years old, eh? In stock market years, that’s...
Why the Market’s Talking Italian
Why is it that, just as one “financial market monster” is vanquished another bigger, uglier and scarier one always seems...
Market View: Confusing the Summer’s Roses for Weeds
What would the summer financial season be without a continuing stream of bad data to push you to react? I’d...