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Luxury Spending
Luxury Spending
Chronically low interest rates since the Pit of Gloom in March 2009 have fueled a huge credit bubble in Canada. St...
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Billionaire Census 2014
Billionaire Census 2014
The Wealth-X and UBS Billionaire Census 2014 Record number of billionaires (now): 2325 Billionaires combined net...
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Overslept, so tired, if late, get fired. Why bother? Why the pain? Just go home, do it again. More at www....
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It’s always a time to rent or buy unless you're Hikikomori. I mashed up the chart above from Mercer via ZeroHedg...
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Stealth Money - Taxation and Corporate Invisibility LONDON: Since you do not pay taxes just to live there (in Lon...
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"Hedge Fund guys are the new Japanese." Old time realtors who worked through the flat market of the 1970's and the...
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The sample price drop building reminded me of New York where the term "jonesing" is said to have originated and th...
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"Blackstone Group LP (BX), builder of the biggest single-family rental home business in the U.S. is using its expe...
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Share of Wealth
Share of Wealth
"We're in California, isn't there a better way of doing that?" Elon Musk. The bottom 50% of most national populations...
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Wealth Change
Wealth Change
The October 2013 Credit Suisse Global Wealth Databook contains lots of comparitive charts on recent national and g...
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The Number Millionaires in Canada grew by 6.5% Y/Y. In Australia they're up 15.1% Y/Y. From The Economist (Jun 22n...
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Vancouver is in the record book for what is thought to be the highest price paid for a single condo in Canada via...
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Toronto has more than twice as many billionaires as Vancouver, and more than Calgary and Vancouver combined. We ca...
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The tables presented here are from The Wealth Report created by Knight Frank with opinions gleaned from High Net W...
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