DOM means ‘days on market’ and records the time since the last listing of that property, not the first one. The total length ...
House sales in Montreal (the second-largest market in Canada) dropped 15% last month. Single-family home deals were off 17%.
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The vanished

They all have populations close to 120,000, which is the number of employed people that vanished from the face of our Dominion last month. The labour force dropped by this astonishing number, so even ...
It was a solid start to the year, with the S&P 500 and TSX gaining 1.4% and 0.8%, respectively, in January. We pay close attention to January’s performance because it has historically offered insight ...
Number 10 Who needs cash. Farmers NEED CASH so they do do some cash cash no receipt. However when an expense is a farm ...
Long ago (the autumn of 2023) I told you about Joel Sussman, the conspiracy dude. He spent a career in the travel business before having an epiphany – that they’re out to get us. “They” turn out to be ...
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Continued near-term dollar weakness seems a real possibility…but its status as the world’s reserve currency is not in doubt. Sometimes it’s easy to reinforce a narrative with hard data. Whenever ...
It’s called ‘recency bias’ which means thinking what!s happening now will happen in the future. Perhaps forever. For sure next year. Here’s the nerdy definition: “a cognitive, memory-based phenomenon ...
Enough Trump. Gaza. Greenland, Mexico. Panama. Canada. Enough drama and politics. All the erudite, well-padded old farts (and the young ones, too) who come to this pathetic blog need a reminder of how ...