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Growth in Value: January 2008
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Thursday, January 24, 2008. A few finance-related things I've found of interest out there on the Internets:. 1) Are we in a recession? And is it over? I have no idea. But I do know that when Starbucks starts departing from their traditional strategy of selling overpriced coffee, the big guys must be worried. $1 coffee and free refills? What is this, my local coffee shop? Until Eric Reguly nailed it. The answer is obvious: There are serious flaws in SocGen's oversight and risk management departments.
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Growth in Value: labours of love
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Monday, September 01, 2008. In honour of everyone's favourite excuse to pass out while swatting mosquitoes with an empty bottle of Moosehead. A cornucopia of labour-themed links for you all this Labour Day. An interesting feature in FP on how unions are slowly but surely losing some of their influence. But reports of the death of labour might be greatly exaggerated. Outgoing CAW president Buzz Hargrove disagrees. In China's GDP this year. One of the culprits? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A 20-some...
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Growth in Value: May 2008
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Friday, May 30, 2008. Another earnings season for Canadian banks has come and gone, and the credit crisis picture doesn't appear to be getting any clearer. Results were a bit of a mixed bag. Scotia, Royal, BMO, TD and National Bank all saw their profits dip. A little, while CIBC squatted down and unloaded yet another $1-billion loss for the quarter. The bank that I own, BMO, didn't exactly knock my socks off. Shouldn't be much of a surprise. Thursday, May 22, 2008. I must admit, I was embarrassed to disc...
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Growth in Value: Thoughts on the wireless spectrum auction
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008. Thoughts on the wireless spectrum auction. Much as I'd love to believe Industry Minister Jim Prentice's claims that the recent auction of new wireless spectrum is going to revolutionize the industry. In Canada by giving consumers more choice for less money, I don't. The CBC's handy iPhone index. Network (currently Rogers is the only one, which explains the iPhone exclusivity) and they've been a genuinely cheap alternative in conventional long distance and Internet service. But the...
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Growth in Value: Subprime synergism
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Monday, August 25, 2008. The always well-done Sunday New York Times business section offered me two great reads this week. That they're actually related to each other is even better. First, actor and author Ben Stein offers a little perspective. On the unfolding subprime mortgage crisis. Not that there aren't pockets of truly astounding real estate implosions across the U.S.A. as this excellent feature on real estate in Merced, Calif. by David Streitfield. Is probably the piece's money shot:. Canadian fi...
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Growth in Value: Welcome to the jungle
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Monday, June 09, 2008. Welcome to the jungle. A very warm pfblog welcome is in order for my good friend Andy's brand-spanking new personal finance blog, unspending. Andy's a twentysomething who's decided to face up to her financial life before it gets out of her control. Unspending's barely more than a weekend old, and she's already taken the fantastic first step of realizing that paying bank fees is death by a thousand cuts. Read her. Welcome her. Add her to your blogroll. Lara began his cricket career ...
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Growth in Value: Extreme makeover: Foreclosure edition
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Monday, July 28, 2008. Extreme makeover: Foreclosure edition. Not much I can really add to the story that a house built in 2005 for a down-on-their-luck family on the TV show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Has gone into foreclosure. The four-storey mini-mansion, built for the Harper family with the help of 1,800 volunteers and residents from Lake City, Georgia, will be auctioned off to the highest bidder on August 5th. The house was used as collateral for a $450,000 loan that went into default. They are...
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Growth in Value: September 2008
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Saturday, September 20, 2008. Maybach Financial - Boiler Room? In my never-ending quest for information on companies I might want to invest in, I happened across an independent broker research firm called Maybach Financial. The other week. I signed up as a member to get access to some of their analyst reports on companies I already own and am thinking of buying, reasoning taht the more information I have, the better off I am, regardless of the source. A pink-sheet listed junior resources company. I d...
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Growth in Value: Darts and laurels
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Thursday, June 12, 2008. When you work in the media (and by association, hang out with journalists) while also being one of those weird people who actually enjoys talking about financial topics, it makes two things more likely to happen. No. 1, the odds that your drunken ramblings might ever see the light of mainstream publication are infinitely increased. And No. 2, how they're received is likely to be all over the map. Toward the fruit of my overactive brain. My good friend Andrea. Congrats on your men...