We’re now down to a birth rate of 1.25 children per woman. A record. By way of comparison, the US rate is 1.6 kiddos, which is being called a demographic crisis – and blamed in large part on the cost ...

First, don’t be clingy about GICs or insanely afraid of the future. History has shown that over a reasonable period of time ...

Just days after the prime minister launched Build Canada Homes, the vision blew up. The feds are committing $36 billion in tax dollars to jumpstart housing, throw up half a million new units a year ...

The RRSP/RRIF meltdown strategy is based on the premise that withdrawing funds from taxable registered accounts earlier in ...

Behind fresh stock market records, falling interest rates and your romping B&D portfolio lurks darkness. Let me give you some examples from my own hood. (These days I’m squatting in a 206-year-old ...

Three more sleeps until the first interest rate cut of the entire year. Those little hairs on the back of realtor and mortgage broker necks are tingling. It’s been a dogawful year, after all.

So that’s it. The last hurdle to falling interest rates has been cleared. Tomorrow morning the Bank of Canada rate will drop a quarter point to 2.5% and along with it the bank prime will wilt, plus ...

Clever title Garth seeing as there is an actual wind warning in Southern Ontario this morning and a gust just blew one of my windows shut. “Stagflation” – is this what is in store for the US?

Mr. Market woke up on Monday and decided there’s a 90% chance The Fed will drop interest rates by a quarter point Wednesday. Lousy jobs data on Friday. We get it. The first reduction since a certain ...

He’s 28, house-horny, married (with child), earns $132,000, has about sixty grand saved, and wants to stay in the GTA, commutable to the core. “But no condo. Ever.” The simple answer is: Duh. Meh.

On the same day Mark Carney was spanked over new house construction, homebuilders swore a collapse is coming. In Ottawa the Parliamentary Budget Office said there’s no way the feds will get the 3.2 ...