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A (sometimes) regular compendium of my current thoughts on markets, the economy, and other random marginalia I got my first AstraZeneca vaccine shot last week, and maybe it’s the just my new vaccine-derived superpowers talking but I instantly felt a lot...

Wealth and Privilege Today is Remembrance Day, and with lockdowns in Manitoba and across the country it will be a strange one. It seems to have been forgotten amid all of the pandemic chaos and the US election craziness, but this is actually the 75th...

Woah, Cowboy! Steady! This past week is one I think we all would like to forget. Volatility jumped meaningfully higher and stocks sold off in the worst week for global equity markets since the end of March, when the pandemic was in its infancy. The second...

There’s nothing better than a sunrise Sunsets get all the glory, and sure they're often brilliant, but there's something about the shift from darkness to dawn—that slight hint of light, then the breaking of the sun—that always gets my day off to the right...

I’m typing this from the cottage right now as the sky blues above me following the brief hailstorm that just passed through. The mercurial nature of cottage weather is one of my favourite parts of the summer. I spent the past couple of weeks on a light...

The COVID-19 crisis dealt employees a serious blow, and young people have been hit particularly hard with a nearly 30% unemployment rate. The summer months – crucial for internships, seasonal work, and starting careers – might not be much better, as employers...

Another week in isolation, another week of my roundup of the things pushing the economic and the financial markets this past week, and the ones to come.

So we have passed another week of COVID-19 lockdowns, market turmoils, good- and bad- news on the ongoing fight with viral spread, and the worst mass shooting in Canadian history. I have seen this quote a couple of times this past week, so I think I’m...