January | 2025 | Juggling Dynamite
4 days ago · “An explosive critique about the investment industry: provocative and well worth reading.” Financial Post “Juggling Dynamite, #1 pick for best new books about money and markets.”
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Jan 15, 2025 · “An explosive critique about the investment industry: provocative and well worth reading.” Financial Post “Juggling Dynamite, #1 pick for best new books about money and markets.”
Surprise: financial conditions tightening into 2025
Jan 14, 2025 · While the U.S. Federal Reserve cut overnight rates by 125 basis points since November 2023 (below on the lower right), the U.S. 10-year Treasury yield has risen more than a percentage point, touching 4.8% for the first time since October 2023 (on the lower left) and April 2007 before that. Higher ...
Cash crunch set to intensify in 2025 | Juggling Dynamite
Dec 9, 2024 · Some 1.2 million Canadian mortgages are set to renew in 2025. In 2021, those taken out with 3—to 5-year terms had an average interest rate of 2.05%.
Juggling Dynamite | By Danielle Park
4 days ago · “An explosive critique about the investment industry: provocative and well worth reading.” Financial Post “Juggling Dynamite, #1 pick for best new books about money and markets.”
Different countries similar challenges | Juggling Dynamite
Jan 7, 2025 · Canada’s unemployment rate rose to 6.9% in December, now up 210 basis points (bps) from the 4.8% low in June 2022 (below in blue). The U.S. unemployment rate, at 4.2%, has risen 80 bps since it bottomed in April 2023. There has never been a time when unemployment has increased this much outside of ...
The biggest global risks for 2025 | Juggling Dynamite
Jan 8, 2025 · Many moving parts are pulling in opposite directions. This discussion highlights some big ones. 2025 ushers in one of the most dangerous periods in world history — on par with the 1930s and early Cold War, says Ian Bremmer, president and founder of Eurasia Group and GZERO Media. Highlighting the ...
Rethinking risk-exposure | Juggling Dynamite
Jan 15, 2025 · The Great Fire of London in 1666 prompted the creation of the first fire insurance companies, which later evolved into broader property insurance. Home insurance became more widespread in the 19th century, particularly in the United States and Europe, as urbanization and industrialization increased ...
Market snakes follow ladders | Juggling Dynamite
Dec 10, 2024 · Canada’s Venture Composite Index (a basket of economically sensitive micro-cap companies, 44% weighted in materials, 30% information technology, 15.74% in energy, 3.5% health care, 2.48% financials, 1.85% industrials, .58% communication services, and .32% consumer discretionary) appears to concur with former BoC …
Unaffordable home prices weigh | Juggling Dynamite
Jan 6, 2025 · U.S. markets have seen similar trends, now reversing in several key areas. Today we have the good fortune to hear another housing analyst’s 2025 outlook for home prices. We’re joined by Nick Gerli, founder of Reventure Consulting and creator of the new Reventure app. Nick points out that buying a home has rarely been this expensive in living American history: once was in 1981 when mortgage ...