The wire was an inch thick and caused nothing but problems.

Buying a house is a form of forced savings by paying the mortgage every month and maybe in 25 – 30 years you might actually ...

But it isn’t. This is dog-whistle politics, classically blaming outsiders, or ‘them’ for wrongs being committed against ...

In other words, fellow little beavers, there is no national unity crisis in Canada. They can huff. They can puff. And you ...

Capital markets are enormously complex yet surprisingly simple. They’ll always tilt, on a risk-adjusted basis, in the direction where there’s the greatest opportunity to make money. This is one reason ...

Mon Dieu! Upwards of 300,000 Florida properties are owned by Quebeckers. In fact, the state counts 60,000 people from that province as being residents. They clump together in places like Pompano Beach ...

It’s been a challenging few months. I recently came down with a bad case of shingles, which I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy. In Danish, the rough English translation is “devil’s fire,” and I can’t ...

Well, just when real estate ‘s chilling, rates are rising and regs erecting comes word the feds would like to make it easier for the self-employed and newly-arrived to buy houses. Yes, like the home ...

However, since the main motivation of most Canadians is to get up in the morning and figure out how to screw the banks, rates matter. People want to win, and lenders to lose. So they’re willing to ...

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 ...