What happens in China will have a profound impact on Canada’s business. Events in that Asian…
Canada’s Business
Transformation worth copying
More often than not, we Canadians reject copying any ideas from south of the border. It may seem…
The last hurrah
According to the consumer price index, inflation is under control. Nonetheless, those numbers were…
Consumers will make do, so suppliers might start to hurt a little
Consumer-goods firms everywhere are in the middle of a very grim time. What is significant is not…
A big change: Non-profit groups are no longer horribly inefficient
There are innumerable examples of non-profit organizations that usually are advised to become more…
Are people doing better than two years ago?
Politicians routinely ask voters if they are better off than, say, two years ago. The average…
Investors must understand facts of life
It should come as no surprise that investment firms’ recommendations so often are wide of a…
Crooked investment is simply bad for business
Many years ago a stockbroker, benefitting from some insider information, made a sizable profit. His…
Travelling less
Now that the summer holiday season has come to a close, it has become obvious that all of us are…
Confounded
For those of us who are middle aged, or even older, the price of “things,” various…
Union problem
Over the past few years unions in Canada have had little success in organizing non-union companies,…
Cyclical recovery, secular decline
The most surprising event of the North America business recovery is the robust auto market. It is…
Assistance needed
At the moment we should be celebrating the resurgence of our farming industry. That development…
Quants
For most of us who are uninitiated in modern computer slang, terms like quants or algorithms are…
Always busy
Most of us believe that if we were to become wealthy, we would have much more leisure time. Those…