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Self-dealing enables companies to sidestep market price discovery, mark their asset values to fantasy and boost their management fees while keeping existing investors believing that their equity value ...
Homebuilders are already offering buy-down rates in the 3 percent range in the US and Canada. Still, new home sales have contracted year over year, while the inventory of new US single-family homes ...
If we had a dime for all the times people say silly things, like “You’ll never lose money in real estate” or “high-end properties always hold their value.” Not true, never has been. The current real ...
Margin debt (people borrowing against their security portfolios) has now topped $1 trillion for the first time in history, +25% over the past year alone. Other, lesser, margin-abuse peaks occurred ...
The ongoing housing downturn is the biggest story, and it’s getting little coverage. No doubt, there is financial pain unfolding, but longer-term, much lower home prices are a massive part of the ...
Last night at midnight, goods from more than 60 countries and the European Union became subject to tariff rates of 10% or higher. Products from the EU, Japan and South Korea are taxed at 15%, while ...
Worth a listen to this one. Michael Green warns that passive investing has quietly turned markets into a self-reinforcing bubble (Ponzi-like in nature) and reveals why bonds now offer ...
A world focused on selling us investment products and ideas spends little time defining sell or aversion rules. If someone tells you what they own or would buy, ask them when they would sell it. Most ...
Canada’s seasonally adjusted job vacancy rate fell to 2.7% in May, down 10 basis points (bps) from April and -50 bps year over year, reaching an 8-year low, significantly below pre-pandemic levels ...