The article below is a guest contribution by David Rosenberg, Chief Economist and Strategist of Gluskin Sheff & Associates – one of Canada’s pre-eminent wealth management firms.What passes as normal? Well, today, that is an...
Read MoreOn this week’s WealthTrack, Consuelo Mackinterviews third generation value investor Christopher Davis of Davis Funds. This former Morningstar “Money Manager of the Year” discusses how family tradition helps him find long term...
Read MoreThis post provides links to a number of interesting articles I have read over the past few days that you may also enjoy.• James Mackintosh (Financial Times):Ingot we trust for that element of insurance, August 7, 2010. There is...
Read MoreThis post is a guest contribution by Dian Chu, market analyst, trader and author of the Economic Forecasts and Opinions blog.With its rapidly growing rural-to-urban population, China is in the midst of a massive transportation...
Read MoreRemember when Ronald Reagan was president? At that time, we also had Bob Hope and Johnny Cash.Now we have Obama, no HOPE and no CASH.Source: Unknown.Did you enjoy this post? If so, click here to subscribe to updates to...
Read MoreMy estimate of the July GDP-weighted PMI (manufacturing and non-manufacturing) of 52.5/53 fell short of the actual 54.58 as the ISM non-manufacturing PMI surprised on the upside.The latest GDP-weighted PMI is suggesting that US...
Read MoreIn this interview, Charlie Rose sits down withKenneth Rogoff of Harvard University and David Wessel, economics editor of The Wall Street Journal, for a thoughtful discussion on the economy.A link to the transcript of the...
Read MoreThe U.S. Labor Department yesterday announced that non-farm payroll employment declined by 131,000 as the dismissal of census workers contributed to a reduction of 202,000 in government payrolls. The jobless rate was unchanged...
Read More“The dollar trade, weighted, has been weak for the last few months, and that’s largely a function of whether investors are putting risk on or taking risk off,” Robin Griffiths of Cazenove Capital told CNBC.Source: CNBC, August...
Read MoreDon Coxe has updated his popular webcast on Tuesday, August 3, 2010 – good news for his followers. You can access the recording here or from the sidebar of the Investment Postcards site (the column on the right-hand side) by...
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