User: Brian Ripley: CAD Debt & Credit

The top panel in the mashup above is the Thomson Reuters Commodity Index chart since the 1980's provided by Kimble...

I suspect Canada's "information regime" is going to change abruptly if it has not not already. Loans officers are...

New Chart: Canadian Household Debt, GDP, Foreign Direct Investment and Balance of Trade ITEM: Canada is the fifth...

There are 3 charts on this page. The top panel shows Canadian Government Spending vs Labour Force Participation an...

The charts above show the ongoing DEFLATION in consumption prices and wage earnings. The top panel is the MIT Bill...

When prices stop rising, the boom collapses and because there has been no increase in business investment other th...

Post WW2 and 1970's inflation, Canada has been late to the party and the ongoing Canadian mortgage creation boom r...

U.S. mortgage loans in banks’ total lending portfolios have doubled from about 30% in 1900 to about 60% today....

Canadian exports are not booming, there is a global slowdown in demand for commodities, finished products and serv...

Canada's Minister of Finance suddenly resigned earlier this week. The government's major fiscal policy plank is to...

The sample price drop building reminded me of New York where the term "jonesing" is said to have originated and th...

I rebuilt my 6 biggest Canadian Metros Housing Chart and added the average condo price for Vancouver, Calgary & To...

A 3% handle on a no risk treasury looks pretty good. Imagine what a 4% handle is going to look like and what it wi...

This 4-chart mashup (5 charts in total actually) looks at Canadians (households and business) continuing to vigorousl...

BMO Capital Markets Economic Research released their North American Outlook (Nov 13, 2013) which included a foreca...

MIRAGE MARKET: Canadians did not see that the housing bubble was over in 2Q 2010. The last 3+ years have been a gi...

Anyone who owned real estate in the 1970's and 80's knows that today's real estate prices are highly speculative a...

Here's Mother Nature... next comes Mr Margin. Yesterday Canadian mortgage lenders hiked their posted lending rates...

"Three-quarters of all Canadian mortgages are insured by the federal government, up from only 30 per cent in 1988....

Thanks to Pacifica Partners Inc. we have an update on their chart series showing that Canadians have hit a heavy c...

Canadian Consumers: "...after 11 consecutive years in which household spending has exceeded disposable income, the...

The current animal spirits are still feeding off of debt and Canada continues to be a leader in leveraging it. Can...