The overall median age of first-time buyers in the USA hit a record last year, and is still there. It’s 40. In 2020 the age was thirty. By the way, new buyers who used mortgage financing to buy, ...

The Greeks packed up, sailed off to a nearby island and appeared to have given up their siege. The lone soldier they left ...

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Chopping civil servants. A mess of them – between 28,000 and 40,000 jobs will be wiped away in the public sector over the next couple of years. Targeted will be foreign affairs and the dodgy housing ...

The bottom line is that markets tend to like gridlock. A divided government limits the likelihood of major tax, spending, and ...

Was it only two days ago the central bank dudes raised interest rates, warning more hikes might come, to cool off the economy? Yep. That. This is what they said: “In the outlook, inflation is higher ...

Rents are falling. The real estate market is a swamp. Hiring is up. Is this because population growth in Canada has collapsed? Is this a good thing, or are we risking economic slowdown just when ...

In 2007 I was still warming a green chair in the House of Commons, some guy from Calgary was the PM, five-year mortgages were 7.2%, the central bank rate was 4.5% and prime rate at the banks was just ...

The Ontario government is sliding into panic mode. Days ago Stellantis spit in the premier’s eye saying it was moving Jeep production to Illinois. Then GM abruptly bailed out of its EV production in ...

BC’s budget deficit, at almost $14 billion, is off the charts. Only Ontario – with a whack more people and a massively larger economy – rivals that budget shortfall. In fact, BC’s river of red ink now ...

In the past, on Canada Day, this pathetic but patriotic blog relayed the story of the DJ and the national anthem. I was an MP. He was the morning guy at a two-bit AM radio station operating out of the ...