The Winter of Many Fires: The Story Behind Christmas and the World’s Solstice Traditions

December 16, 2025 |John Vidas
Every winter, as the earth leans away from the sun and shadows thicken, a hush falls across the northern world—a silence so deep it seems to come from before history itself. The forests grow still. The sea darkens. Light becomes a brief visitor. And yet...
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Why We Keep Getting the Future Wrong — And Why Investors Still Have to Predict It

December 09, 2025 |John Vidas
“Television won’t be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night”. …………Darryl Zanuck (20th Century Fox Film Producer), 1946 Markets defy our models, politics...
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Cyber Scams in Canada

November 17, 2025 |John Vidas
25 Million Attacks Daily. The Silent War on Canadian Banks and You! And what you can do. Royal Bank of Canada is hammered by **25 million hostile cyber-attacks every single day**, a relentless barrage driven by North Korea, Russia, China, and sprawling...
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What I learned from my 4-year-old Grandson

October 08, 2025 |John Vidas
We live in an age where your phone buzzes every five minutes with a new “breaking” headline. Politicians thunder on TV. Analysts fire off charts with arrows pointing in every possible direction. Central bankers speak in riddles, and markets behave like...
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Hands Off the Fed – Part 2

September 10, 2025 |John Vidas
Why the U.S. Federal Reserve Must Remain Independent Picture the Fed drama as a carnival sideshow: Trump as the ringmaster, loudly promising to fire Jerome Powell as if he’s announcing the bearded lady, while Scott Bessent clangs cymbals behind him to...
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When Central Banks Fall: The Cost of Losing Monetary Independence in the U.S. and Beyond

August 08, 2025 |John Vidas
“Lambasting the Fed has become a go-to move in Trump and Co. arsenal.” --- Why? --- “The Fed walks into every room with more built-in credibility than any elected official.” In the world of modern economic management, few institutions wield as much influence—or...
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Turning U.S. Reshoring into Canadian Opportunity: The Race for Resources & Relevance”

July 22, 2025 |John Vidas
In my last Blog entry --- Let’s Make Canada Great – Now! --- I provide you with my thoughts, and general overview, on Canada’s pivotal economic transformation (2025-2035). Here I am expanding the focus on Canada’s opportunity from an investor’s perspective...
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Let’s Make Canada Great --- Now!

May 08, 2025 |John Vidas
The second Trump administration has introduced a new era of geopolitical volatility, marked by transactional diplomacy, weakened multilateral alliances, and unpredictable policy execution. Rooted in the 'America First' doctrine and informed by Project...
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The Empire’s Ledger

April 11, 2025 |John Vidas
What the World Owes America — and What America Pretends It Does Not Receive. In the fevered mind of the Trump administration — and under the economic gospel of Stephen Miran — the United States is a global Atlas, shoulders buckling under the weight of...
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Tariff Nation

April 07, 2025 |John Vidas
How Project 2025, Stephen Miran, and Trump Are Rewriting the Rules of Global Trade President Trump has reignited a global economic firestorm, declaring that the U.S. has been “ripped off” for decades by unfair trade deals—pointing to massive trade deficits...
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