The public (and policy makers) focus on size of businesses. Everyone loves small firms. Yet, this…
Canada’s Business
A mixed message
In a kind of message of Christmas cheer, it appears that the housing sector in the United States is…
Becoming blurred
Over the next couple of decades, rural North America will undergo a drastic change. That will…
A rude awakening
A few decades ago George Santayana, a philosopher, wrote, “Those who forget the past are…
Discouraging expectations
A “talking head” on television recently was spouting his views on the economy. This…
An upward trend in prices
Naysayers constantly claim that commodity prices are due to decline, and in fact, have not climbed…
The new old trend
Economists often refer to a “reversion to the mean” where trends go back to the…
Organizational complexity
In business and in government, there are too many cases of management consisting of mismanagement.…
A new role
Now that we are just about at the peak of student enrolment at our post-secondary institutions,…
Mixed results
Over the past year following the onset of the recession, investors and speculators have scrambled…
The biggest worry
It is difficult to determine the biggest threat to our economy at this time. There are so…
Left out
Those of us who are middle-aged or even older increasingly are being left out of the mindset of…
An evaluation
For quite some time managing other people’s money has been a very profitable occupation,…
Rising costs
As we go through life we find that our cost of living rises exponentially. Clothes cost more.…
At long last
After eons of being treated as second class citizens (or worse), women at long last are being…