Canadian Reverse Mortgage Debt Is Up Over 26% From Last Year
09/10/2019 11:15 AMCanadian seniors are slowing down on the equity binge, but they’re still tapping quite a bit. Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) filings show reverse mortgage debt reached a new high in June. Canadian reverse mortgage debt is decelerating in...
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Anti-Aging Market To Hit $55 Billion
09/10/2019 11:11 AMIt’s not just you who’s aging. Our world is getting old. By next year, 55-year-olds will outnumber 5-year-olds. By 2050, the number of people aged 50 and older will rise to 3.2 billion--a twofold increase since 2015. Baby Boomers, born between 1944 and 1964, are now...
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Even When We Spent More Money We Call It a Cut
09/10/2019 6:50 AMDespite unequivocal evidence from successive auditor generals that billions of tax dollars are wasted there are no shortage of people who call any savings in how we administer and deliver government programs a catastrophic...
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Bombardier, Auto Manufacturers Emissions Good – Oil Sands Bad
09/09/2019 6:10 AMGo figure. Or maybe you can't. The feds say that they want to phase out the oil sands but don't seem to have any trouble subsidizing Bombardier's jet and the big automakers...
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Complete Show – Sept. 7th
09/07/2019 10:30 AMGuest host Michael Levy talks pipelines and the future of renewables, Rob Levy explains how global interest rates are affecting precious metals, Josef Schachter comments on seasonality in the oil sector and we find out why Ross Clark is bullish on Delta...
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Schachter Energy Conference – Catch the Energy
09/06/2019 7:35 AMThis conference is a must-see for anyone with oil and gas in their portfolio or thinking about it for the first time. General admission tickets are sold out but VIP tickets are still available and are offered to MoneyTalks listeners at early bird prices. Click here to...
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Alberta’s Financial State Bring Predictable Response
09/06/2019 7:29 AMHow does a $40 billion deficit in 2040 - just 20 years away sound? Not bad to the defenders of the status quo who believe nothing justifies considering changes to how government delivers and manages services....
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The Massive Drop in Capital Investment in the Oil Industry
09/05/2019 5:53 AMCosts thousands of jobs and billions in government revenue. No Western country works harder to discourage its principal resource than Canada. It's not even...
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Buyers are Off the Benches and in the Purchasing Game, Thanks to Stress Test Mitigation
09/04/2019 2:23 PMEitel Insights forecast of the stress test mitigation has come to fruition. June and July 2019 Average Sales Price for Greater Vancouver Detached properties realized a loss of 17% & 18% respectively. That signaled a stress test mitigation. The stress test was...
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Here’s What I’m Worried About. And It’s Not a Recession
09/04/2019 7:37 AMThe locker room at my swim club has become the litmus test. When a complex topic, after years of being absent or ignored, suddenly crops up in conversation, and not just sporadically but all the time, it means that there is some kind of peaking going on. This suddenly...
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