Been out of town for a bit, but I've returned to my desk and I'm ready to get the blog back up and running. So, I know I missed a few things while I was away — mainly the Mexico/U.S./Canada meeting, but let's start where I left off a couple ...

So, is the recession over or not? If you're asking the Conservative government that question then don't expect a straight answer. A few days after Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney declared the recession over, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said that wasn't the case. "I think the direction's important. There ...

On Sunday, President Obama told Waxman-Markey-bill drafters that he likes the vision of a clean green economic future in their sights, but wants them to lose the tariff approach they're currently favouring to get there.

Last night, 300 Chartered Financial Analysts gathered for dinner in an elegant ballroom at the local five-star Hilton. It was their annual forecast dinner. Two of the speakers gave forecasts that were persuasive -- yet diametrically opposed.

An Infomart search through Canadian content for the 12 months ended Mar. 31, 2009, turned up the word recession 221,917 times. A like 12-month  search in the last major recession ending in 1991 returned 23,196 hits. Depression returns 4,582 hits for the 1991 cycle and 94,713 mentions in 2008-2009. News ...

Some 1,500 curious Canadians packed the Elgin Theatre Tuesday for “A Night with the Bears,” a lavish and civilized affair sponsored by Sprott Asset Management that was a step-up from the typical event of this type. There were drinks at the press conference, a stage decked out as if it ...

Just a heads-up for anyone following this blog that a really great issue of Canadian Business (if I do say so myself) is hitting newsstands tomorrow. The cover package is a journal of a cross-country trip staff writer Joe Castaldo took a few weeks ago, to "take the pulse" of ...

Just because it's the weekend, doesn't mean the economy takes a break from crumbling. So, before you head outside to enjoy the second day of Spring, take a look at a few interesting stories that have recently popped up on the web. Have a good weekend!

I recently came across this scary chart (see below) showing the trend in marginal tax rates for top-bracket U.S. citizens from 1925 to 1945. It was in a document prepared by retired professor David Stanley for a Canadian MoneySaver conference in January.

"Unless you can watch your stock holdings decline by 50% without becoming panic-stricken, you should not be in the stock market." Warren Buffett