Canada is at a critical juncture

Banking, online shopping and social media are the future, but how many of the companies dominating these fields are Canadian? Source: Financial Post In the midst of any crisis, one of the most important lessons I’ve learned is that one always has a choice — you can either move forward in a new direction or…

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Four ways that coronavirus has changed capital markets

COVID-19 crisis has taken a big step toward policy co-ordination along the lines of modern monetary theory. Source: Financial Times Some day this crisis will end. When, and at what human and economic costs, remain big unknowns. But when markets return to something like normality, investors are likely to find a fundamentally altered political and…

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Coronavirus Is The ‘Largest Insolvency Event’ In History

Former Wall Street money manager warns of the COVID-19 crisis as one of the biggest insolvency risks in history. Source: Forbes Bitcoin has largely failed to perform as a so-called safe-haven asset during the coronavirus crisis so far—though that could have begun to change. The bitcoin price fell sharply last month amid a broader market…

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