Tusk Trader is going to be an exciting new blog written by a Bay Street trader with many years of trading experience working for major banks and investment firms in Toronto. While that blog is being …

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Welcome to the third quarter update of the Third Annual Bloggers’ Stock Picking Contest. This will always seem somewhat paradoxical to my regular readers as I pretty much never talk about stock …

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Recently I ran into a long time reader who asked if I would re-post an old series I wrote on the P/E ratio. I wrote this when the blog was not yet a year old and didn't have many readers so I thought …

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The humorous title for today's post comes from a recorded presentation given by Dr. Yoram Bauman. The 10 principles of economics are translated for main street in this 5 minute video, and I had to …

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To be an investor, you first need money to invest. That ultimately comes from running a surplus. The same holds true for countries. The ones who run a surplus can create huge portfolios of assets. …

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I've been getting asked this question a lot lately, so I thought instead of telling people to immerse themselves in some boring text book, I'll do my best to explain it in the simplest possible way …

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