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The Limits of Economic Experimentation

Apr 19 2016
Pacifica Partners Spring 2016 Quarterly Commentary: This quarter’s newsletter gets its title from the growing global trend towards the acceptance of negative interest rates as a component of mainstream economic policy.  Negative interest rate policy (NIRP) is increasingly being seen as an act of economic desperation by the markets. Currently, the central banks of Europe,…

Taking an Inventory of Investor Worries

Jan 06 2016
The Pacifica Partners Winter 2016 Quarterly Commentary: Most years, financial markets tend to rally in the month of December. As the 2015 holiday season wound down, investors found that Santa had deprived them of their traditional yearend rally. Instead of a rally, investors were left showered with volatility to close off 2015 and clinging to…

Canada & the USA, a Tale of Two Economies

May 14 2013
When two countries are as interconnected as Canada and the US, it is often the case that their respective economic circumstances are at least somewhat similar. For these two North American neighbors, however, their economies and stock markets have diverged considerably over recent months. This shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise, as we…

Canada US Real Estate Chartbook

May 14 2013
Horace, the ancient Roman poet of the first century BCE wrote in his work Ars Poetica, "many shall be restored that are now fallen and many shall fall that are now in honor." We can say with absolute certainty that Horace was not referring to modern day North American real estate markets. However, his statement…
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