From the category archives:
NB: As you can imagine from watching a film like Food, Inc., it can be hard to separate the emotion and just report “calmly” on the plain facts presented by the film. Originally I wrote this the same day I saw it, but I’ve since gone back and edited it to try to tone down [...]
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The International Economic Forum of the Americas’ Conference of Montreal was covered this week by BNN’s Amanda Lang, who interviewed the World Bank President (Robert Zoellick), the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (Dominique Strauss-Kahn), former U.S. Secretary of State Madeline Albright and the CEO of General Electric (Jeffrey Immelt).
I’ll provide a brief overview [...]
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Over the past 5 years I’ve had the opportunity to buy, operate, and sell five franchised restaurants. The restaurant businesses, and specifically franchised restaurants, have provided significant additional cash flow for my family (on top of my earnings as a financial advisor 2002-2006, and now private equity fund manager 2007-present).
I think the key is [...]
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Here are the stocks I’m watching lately, supported by votes of confidence from the guest analysts brought in lately on BNN:
Arc Energy Trust - (AET.UN-T): $28-29
Crescent Point Energy - (CPU.UN-T): $33-34
Husky Energy - (HSE-T): $43-44
Freehold Royalty Trust - (FRU.UN-T): $21-22
Diana Shipping - (DSX-N): $28-29
Interesting that most of them are oil plays. Oil per barrel [...]
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This should be interesting. I’m glad I won’t be a BCE holder much longer. Today’s story in the Financial Post (Toronto) - Google Slams Bell for Throttling Internet - shows that Bell Canada is still being held to task for its bandwidth control practices. I checked up on the share prices, but there isn’t much [...]
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Lately I’ve found a new source of distraction in this sporadically intriguing book by David Rothkopf:
The book is ostensibly about the world’s power elite and the nature of their power, wealth and influence. Sounds like predictable, run-of-the-mill summer reading? It’s not. It’s actually quite a nuanced approach to the subject. Rothkopf [...]
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