Two things. First, loans can be financed over 30 years, instead of 25. That starts in mid-December. To qualify you must (a) be a first-time buyers and, (b) be gullible. Alternatively, simple financial ...

You know the news. The guy vows a 25% tariff on all Canadians (and Mexican) stuff on Day One of his vaunted ascendancy to the ...

Welcome to the whine-and-sheesh edition of GreaterFool. We’ll get to some of the moaning in a moment. First a brief update to yesterday’s heretical post about US interest rates rising in 2015. When ...

In case you missed it, our American friends grew their economy at a 3.9% rate in the third quarter of the year. That came after a 4.3% jump in the previous three months. This was the best six-month ...

Yesterday’s tome about kid buyers getting scorched in a falling real estate market is, well, a harbinger. That swamp called Reddit is rife with such tales of terror ...

I’m not quite old enough to remember Jimi Hendrix’s groundbreaking 1967 album release, but I’m old enough to be celebrating this week my 10th anniversary with Turner Investments and my 25th ...

Okay, so it’s not beautiful. But it’s a house that comes with 4,000 square feet of land, two bedrooms, a fireplace and a garage. It’s not the greatest hood, but it’s in a major US city – Chicago. And ...

In 16 days interest rates rise again. By half a point, most econs agree. So, the Bank of Canada rate will have swelled from 0.25% to 4.25% in nine months. That’s a record. Up 1,600%. Variable-rate ...

Z’s lobbing American missiles deep into Russia. Putin’s threatening to turn the word into ash, again. Trump’s putting a wrestling exec in charge of schools, a sex offender into the justice portfolio ...

Andrew took his babe to the bank. Like most 24-year-olds, she doesn’t know how to invest. TFSA in cash. High-fee mutual funds. And way too much in GICs. “We went,” he says, “to set up an on-line ...