All posts tagged "Housing Bubble"

The idea was simple: Track down the people who predicted the housing crash and ask them what’s...

Here’s a question: why is economist Nouriel Roubini so popular again? The man is syndicated in the...

Last Thursday the Bank of Canada warned against the obvious: condos are overpriced and this poses a...

Reprinted from Mises.org In 2009, Lew Rockwell posted this quote of Paul Krugman’s from a 2002 New...

Despite what is commonly understood, the Canadian banking system is NOT as strong and resilient as most...

What is Value At Risk? In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, a myriad of factors...

Back in April, I reviewed a document called the “Financial System Review”, published semi-annually by the Bank...

While the failure of fiscal policy is widely recognized, monetary policy still enjoys credibility, not only among...

Dear readers, it’s happened again. The federal government is once again revising its rules on mortgage lenders....

This appeared today at TroyMedia.com TORONTO, ON, Jul 6, 2012/ Troy Media/ – These days, the casual...

The following has been adapted from a slideshow presentation given at a symposium on Marginal Revolutionaries: The...

Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney takes a lot of cues from his U.S. equivalent and fellow...

A term that everyone, especially in the investment world, should get familiar with is “normalcy bias”. Described...

Chalk up another failure for Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. More than three years after pumping an...

Before the financial panic in the United States the Bank of Canada’s target overnight lending rate was...

After years of litigation, the United States government, along with the governments representing the fifty states, has...

Government interference with the present state of banking affairs could be justified if its aim were to liquidate the unsatisfactory conditions by preventing or at least seriously restricting any further credit expansion. In fact the chief objective of present day government interference is to intensify further credit expansion. This policy is doomed...

The following is a piece I wrote as a response to an editorial written in the Harrisburg Patriot News by Elizabethtown College economics professor Sanjay Paul. The piece, unfortunately, didn’t get picked up so I will reproduce it here. It’s written for the layman as a simple critique of Paul’s commendation of...

That is the question implied by Jay Bryan of the Montreal Gazette today who praises Bank of...

Though this video is well over a year old, it’s still pertinent today as it demonstrates the sheer amount of resources that become dedicated to a central bank fueled frenzy. Behold, a 30 story hotel completed in just 15 days in China (ht Zerohedge) Impressive as such a feat is...