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Olympicss$$$ Fever!

Wow, after watching the olympic ceremony yesterday, I have to admit that it was spectacular. An awe-inspiring show that was truly worth its millions. Anyways, would this and any Olympics affect global finance in any way? Of course, China spent a total of about $43 billion in preparations including city projects, and it is expecting billions and billions in television contracts ...

Weekly Update For A Gloomy July

This week, as rain pours over Ontario, more wealth drains out of North America. The housing industry continues to drop, but it seems the rate is finally slowing down. Wachovia, SunTrust and three other banks reported a combined loss of over 11 billion, while their shares rose in value by ...

Freaky Friday For Freddie and Fannie

Hello fellow readers, I would like to apologize again for not keeping a consistent weekly newsletter for the last while. Quite a few interesting events happened last week, especially on Friday, relating to the financial markets, technology markets as well as my own internet market failure... thanks to Rogers Communications. Moving ...

Our Interest In Inflation

These days, when I look South of the border, I feel really lucky for having such a strong Loonie. Do you know why? It is one of the main reasons our inflation is not exploding compared to other G8 nations. All of the others in the developed world, except Japan, have seen ...

b2logs Update

Heres an update of what's going on with b2logs! After our launch, the website has been slowly picking-up with more and more visitors each day. The team is still marketing hard and we have had success. A few days ago, I was interviewed by Miki Saxon of Leadership Turn. Miki Saxon ...

The Two E’s; Elections and Economics

What a fast moving 2 weeks in the markets. Auto industry news, more credit scares, energy prices still rising causing everything to be volatile. Today, on City 24, there was a live video feed from the Economic Club down in Ottawa and it features Mr. McCain from the USA Now ...

Passengers, Please Remain Calm!

Hello, this is your captain speaking, flight 101 appears to be having some technical difficulties, please do not panic, and SCREW everybody else over. Well, I am not really a captain, but with all the panic and fear in the markets this week, I really hope the public can keep ...

Oil boom finally over? Kaboom?

Whew, this week, it seemed for a second that the crude oil bubble was finally going to drop, due to a recent falling to $125/barrel. Just last week, it was soaring above $135 a barrel, an all-time record. This drop in oil has caused a short economic bull surge. Stocks ...

Official Launch of b2logs.com!

Today is the day...actually it was supposed to be two days ago! Why the delay? Well, everyone had so many great comments and suggestions I just had to prolong the major event. There were a multitude of things to be done before we opened doors officially. Heres a short list of the minor ...

Tarsands? Environmental Sting, or Cash King?

Whew, what a week. Sorry for not being able to post last weekend. It was Victoria day holiday and I have been scrambling to meet assignment due dates since then. Some interesting finance news this week relates to Mr. Icahn shoving his way towards a yahoo microsoft merger, but the ...