The idea that re-shoring manufacturing will increase good-paying jobs in North America faces some challenges from growing automation. Corporations focus on maintaining and increasing profit margins, ...

As the OECD points out, climbing stock prices with contracting economic growth is a counter-productive and foreboding ...

Prices are still falling with the benchmark (typical) new single-family home, down 5.4% to $1.53 million in April, and condos ...

Resource-rich Alberta has long been hailed as the economic engine of Canada. But is it? Andrew Chang breaks down the province’s biggest contributions and how they stack up against the rest of the ...

The S&P 500 risk premium—forward earnings yield minus the 10-year Treasury yield—is once again about zero (below since 2000, via The Daily Shot). Such dismal equity risk-reward prospects have only ...

On one hand, the US economy is showing signs of slowing, with a negative growth for Q1 GDP, and mounting evidence that many corporations and consumer households are feeling the pinch of higher ...

The next time someone says, ‘You never lose money in real estate,’ tell them that’s nonsense and not supported by history.

The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index® also reflected a downturn, dropping by 7.9 points in April to 86.0 ...

In April, Canada’s unemployment rate rose to 6.9%, the highest since September 2021 and 210 basis points above the July 2022 cycle low of 4.8% (shown below since 1950). Beata Caranci, chief economist ...

We recently completed rooftop solar, which allows us to run operations and vehicles on sunshine. Technology is here to improve efficiency and lower waste for all sectors of the economy—a much-needed ...

Today, we received further confirmation of Canada’s deteriorating labour market, with March payrolls falling 54,100 to a 10-month low, and a negatively revised 40,200 fewer jobs in February (Stats Can ...

TRREB is Canada’s biggest real estate board, covering the Greater Toronto Area (area codes 416 and 905, as shown below), which has the largest population concentration in Canada. TRREB just posted ...