Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Why hasn't Canadian Tire Money displaced the Canadian dollar?
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Canadians will all know what Canadian Tire Money is, but American and overseas readers might not. Canadian Tire, one of Canada's lar...
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Wednesday, April 20, 2016
A 21st century gold standard
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Imagine waking up in the morning and checking the hockey scores, news, the weather, and how much the central bank has adjusted the gold ...
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Saturday, April 9, 2016
ETFs as money?
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Blair Ferguson. Source: Bank of Canada Passive investing is eating Wall Street . According to 2015 Morningstar data , while actively ma...
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Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Finance's Battle of the Somme
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When I think of senseless waste, I think of the Battle of the Somme. Whole generations lost in order to move a trench line forward by a ...
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Thursday, March 24, 2016
Slow money
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Would it make sense for firms to try to slow down their equity structure? Equity markets are made of two classes of participants. ...
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Monday, March 14, 2016
Shadow banks want in from the cold
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Remember when shadow banks regularly outcompeted stodgy banks because they could evade onerous regulatory requirements? Not any more. In ...
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Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Are the Swiss fleeing deposits and hoarding cash?
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Have Swiss interest rates fallen so low that the public is finally bolting into cash? The Wall Street Journal and Zero Hedge think so....
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Thursday, February 25, 2016
Don't kill the $100 bill
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Last week I asked whether the Federal Reserve could get rid of the $100 bill. This week let's discuss whether it should get rid of t...
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Sunday, February 21, 2016
Central banks' shiny new tool: cash escape inhibitors
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Thomas Jordan, Chairman of the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank Negative interests rates are the shiny new thing that everyon...
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