Housing Construction Skids in Canada, Crashes in Oil Patch by Wolf Richter • Mar 10, 2015 • 4 Comments Gravity inconveniently inserts itself into a phenomenal boom.
Money Is Bailing Out of Canada by Wolf Richter • Feb 17, 2015 • 27 Comments The floodgates opened in December.
Canada Mauled by Oil Bust, Job Losses Pile Up – Housing Bubble, Banks at Risk by Wolf Richter • Feb 1, 2015 • 28 Comments What ratings agency Fitch and the Bank of Canada had warned about has come to pass.
“Recipe for Disaster”: Canadian Government to Expand State Surveillance Powers (Again) by Wolf Richter • Jan 29, 2015 • 2 Comments The “spillover effects” of overbroad anti-terror legislation.
Recession in Tar-Sands Rich Alberta? by Oilprice.com • Jan 21, 2015 • Comments Off on Recession in Tar-Sands Rich Alberta? The Canadian Province hit hard by low oil prices.
Oil-Bust Contagion Hits Hedge Funds, Supplier Layoffs Begin by Wolf Richter • Dec 30, 2014 • 8 Comments The toxic mix of financial engineering and an oil-price collapse.
The Major Threat to Some of the Largest Oil Producers by Contributor • Nov 10, 2014 • 10 Comments Saudi Arabia is rattling the oil sector with a price war that many think is aimed at U.S. oil producers. But there’s an easier price war to win: with Canadian tar-sands operators.
“House Price Inflation” in Canada by Wolf Richter • Oct 15, 2014 • 2 Comments Is the blindingly magnificent housing bubble in Canada running out of steam?
Is Canada Next? Housing Bubble Threatens ‘Financial Stability’ by Wolf Richter • Oct 1, 2014 • 15 Comments Bank of Canada: it’s so vast and weighed down with so much debt that a “sharp correction in house prices” could take down the financial system.
Germany U-Turns, Torpedoes Corporate Sovereignty Charter in Trade Agreements With US and Canada, Resistance Grows by Don Quijones • Aug 1, 2014 • 1 Comment Germany has learned a lesson: it’s being hounded by a foreign corporation over its nuclear energy policy
