The only thing worse for Canada's economy than America's tariffs is a weak American economy.
If the US sneezes, Canada catches a cold.
The Canadians tripping over themselves with TDS and wishing ill for America needs to come to terms with reality.
You have no one else to blame but ourselves.
For 11 years we had record debt printed with nothing to show for it, told our allies there is no business case, and red taped this country shut. Even right now we are adding taxes and still talking about removing interprovincial trade barriers for a year.
No one is doing more damage to Canada than the damage Canada does to itself.
@BrandonWealth I buy the CDN hedged currently, as long as volume is OK. If I had a block of US currency, I would buy the US listed holdings. I just hope one day I can afford a US dollar.
The best-performing fund of 2026 just got wiped out by its own leverage.
Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness fund just had one of the fastest blowups in hedge fund history. Up 439% this year on aggressive AI bets, it hit $45 billion in assets, then lost the entire public portfolio in weeks.
Here's what made him famous. He went long AI hardware like SK Hynix, the chipmaker, and shorted software stocks like Adobe. Chips up, software down. The trade of the year.
But he wasn't just using his own money. He borrowed roughly 4x his capital to size the bets up. Leverage is great when you're right. It turns brutal the moment you're wrong.
Mid-July, everything flipped at once. His chip stocks fell over 30% in two weeks. His Adobe short backfired, the stock rose instead of falling. He was losing on both sides of the book at the same time.
On July 24, he wrote to investors calling the crash a buying opportunity and asked for fresh capital. The money never came in time.
Then, on July 28, Bloomberg reported that Citadel Securities was calling for a surprise Fed rate hike, a move markets hadn't priced in. Panic hit. AI stocks, already down 30%, fell even harder.
July 30, Thursday morning. All three of his prime brokers, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, and JPMorgan, issued margin calls on the same morning. He had nothing left to negotiate with.
That same day, the Wall Street Journal reported that Ken Griffin's Citadel had bought his entire stock portfolio, reportedly at a steep discount.
Ken Griffin's market-making arm called the rate shock. Days later, Ken Griffin's hedge fund walked away with the assets once the fire sale arrived.
No one has proven intent. But the timing is hard to ignore.
I didn't realize people weren't aware that Lyme disease was probably a lab leak so here it is very simply: Lyme disease originated in Lyme, CT in the 1970s. Lyme, CT just happens to be mere miles away from a US lab studying insect spreading bioweapons in the 1960s
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Donald Trump has slapped huge tariffs on pretty much everything we export.
I have an idea, how about we keep hurling disparaging and insulting remarks to our neighbors to the south, that'll fix everything.
Canadians are absolute idiots. Truly.
It's a symptom of a privileged society that has no respect for the very country that helped us establish our standard of living and quality of life, not to mention the security it provides of living next to the largest superpower in the history of humankind.
Nearly every country in the world would trade spots with us without blinking.
Business 101. You don't have to agree with them, but treat your most important customer respectfully.
We deserve what's coming.