Reading Time: 3 minutes If you give lip service to treating people well and then treat your team poorly, don’t expect your clients to receive anything different
Tag: Banking
Rise of shadow banking a victory for consumers
Reading Time: 4 minutes Hedge and private-equity funds, mortgage lenders, and money-market funds provide accessible sources of credit
Canada must regain its competitiveness
Reading Time: 4 minutes We need tax reforms and other initiatives that will help spur entrepreneurial spirit and encourage investment
Too many fault lines in digital voting process
Reading Time: 3 minutes The shambles of the Iowa caucuses reconfirms that electronic voting is still a long way off
Carney was dead wrong about Brexit
Reading Time: 4 minutes As the Canadian leaves his post as governor of the Bank of England, his legacy is one of bias and wildly incorrect predictions
Bailing out Alberta? ATB could do it
Reading Time: 4 minutes If I were king of Alberta, I’d instruct ATB to use its credit reserves to start buying up Alberta debt on the bond markets
Invisible assets missing link to creating successful tech industry
Reading Time: 3 minutes It is time for conventional banking institutions to enter the 21st century
Mortgage restrictions force millennials to abandon home ownership
Reading Time: 4 minutes The result has significantly dampened the Canadian economy. Banks, not legislated stress tests, know best who can pay for houses
Can we protect privacy in a cashless society?
Reading Time: 4 minutes The key is to find digital mediums of exchange that preserve the distinct attributes of cash
How cryptocurrency is changing basic economics
Reading Time: 4 minutes For survival, central banks have little choice but to enter the digital-currency race. But it’s a race they will eventually lose