Demographics and Your Investments — Part I
Demographic shifts are going to shake up your portfolio. Part I: How portfolios change over a lifetime.
Category: Blog
Tiger Mom and Slacker Parents
Tiger Mom book will sound good to parents of Gen Ys and Gen Zs.
Uh. Oh, high oil prices=recession
well maybe – but not neccessarily. See my blog for the bnn site at http://www.bnn.ca/Blogs/2011/01/07/Match-made-in-heaven-Oil-prices-and-US-recessions.aspx
After the Fall
Now that the U.S. economy looks a just a teensy bit better (I know, I know the National Bureau of Economic Research won’t say that the recession is over, but still) it’s probably okay to start adding up the cost of the crisis. The Pew Research Institute has a new study out that does just […]
What’s Up, Doc?
Okay, this one seemed a little out of sync for me: doctors would apparently be employees than free agents. Or at least that’s what the New York Times says, in this article that was splashed across the front of the business page.
Post-Recession Generations Part I
Baby boomers are going to retire and take down the pension system. Generation X is lazy. Generation Y is spoiled and undisciplined, and they’ve pretty much blown out their eardrums by having them stuffed with ipods all the time anyway.
School Days – Just Fewer of Them
How to respond to the Wall Street Journal’s story on four day school weeks a a solution to the state fiscal crisis in the U.S.? The economist in me says wow, `that`s a great inventive solution` while at the same time wondering if its a short sighted one that will lead to poorly educated kids and […]
An Un-Equal Share of Pain
The recession has taken what was more or less an nicely operational system, and created an absolute mess, a jobs situation without enough jobs and with years to go before we get to anything you could call ‘normal’.
The Olympic Experience
I was going to write something very business-like about the Olympics, something about the returns to invesment for Vancouver or Canada or something like that. On second thought, though, at this point I’d don’t know that anyone can really do justice to the topic without makling some, well, Olympian assumptions. Let me back up a […]
Battling for Brides
Loved this article from the Wall Street Journal on the battle for bride dollars. Basically the wedding magazines still standing (some folded during the ad recession of 2009) are battling each other to grab the soon-to-be-married market. And, despite the fact that revenues for U.S. wedding magazines plunged 30% last year, there are plans to […]
