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Difficult choices
Investors nowadays are very confused, much more than at any recent time. ‘Group think’…
Bring back the Nords
This is an open letter to Gary Bettman, commissioner of the National Hockey League. I am hoping to…
My Riverfest Elora
There is something incredible about standing in a crowd of strangers, feet planted in a familiar…
Getting older
Overlooked as a reason for our sluggish economic growth and price weakness is the ageing of our…
Widowmakers
This past week, we had a strong wind that brought with it heavy thundershowers. I like…
The guiding philosophy
The guiding philosophy of the investment business should be the maintenance of integrity. Without…
Back-to-school shopping
The first rule of back-to-school shopping is this: I do not want to look like the moms in those…
Crazy and hazy
It was one of those hot and windless mid-August mornings. Not a bird in sight; not even the…
Room to manoeuvre
In response to the financial crisis of the previous decade, policy-makers decided to take all…
Drive on
And just like that, summer ended. I watched it fade away in the rearview mirror on my way…
Sold
The auction sale, aforementioned, in the swaybacked building at the end of the once-was Royal…
A nightmare?
Every now and then some commentators come up with a nightmare scenario where technology displaces a…
September
It seems the thing that I resist most in my life is the thing I need most: change. No other month…
Chicken tractor
During the last week of August, something new was added to our landscape. It has been dubbed…