Thoughts On ... Dancing on the Ceiling

 January 29, 2023 |Matt Barasch
To quote one of the most iconic voices of the 1980s – “Oh what a feeling, when we’re dancing on the ceiling.” Now that we have implanted that ear worm in your heads, let’s segue to a ceiling of another sort – the Bank of Canada’s latest rate decision...
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Miss America and Murder

 January 20, 2023 |Matt Barasch
Miss America and Murder This week, we are going to spend a little time discussing the issue of correlation vs. causation. Before your eyes glaze over in a fog of – say what now? – we are going to endeavor to make this both brief and hopefully mildly entertaining...
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Thoughts On ... Revisiting the Inflation Debate

 January 13, 2023 |Matt Barasch
The main narrative of 2022 was that inflation had become deeply rooted and the only way to bring it down was for central bankers to aggressively raise interest rates. This led to an unprecedented rate hiking campaign by both the Bank of Canada and the...
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