I sat on this for almost a month & I decided I would never make this video. Until Mark Carney forced my hand yesterday. It is now a matter of public policy & every Canadian needs to know this. I’m going to get a lot of hate over this but we need to have a respectful discussion
Investors and market commentators are reading too much into short-term market movements in rates, currencies and equities.
I believe that it is much more likely that recent sharp moves in these asset classes is due to highly leveraged market participants being forced out of positions than due to fundamentals.
In other words, technical factors are driving the dramatic market moves. As a result, markets have become increasingly unreliable as short-term indicators of the impact of policy changes.
I don’t understand how it is good for the world to allow investors in equities to operate with 10-1 leverage and investors in Treasurys and currencies to operate with 100-1 leverage.
When did we decide as a society to abandon the margin rules that were put in place to protect markets from this kind of volatility?
The benefit of @realDonaldTrump’s approach is that we now understand who are our preferred trading partners, and who the problems are. China has shown themselves to be a bad actor.
Our counterparties also have a taste of what life is like if they don’t take down their trade barriers.
This is the perfect setup for trade negotiations over the next 90 days.
Advice for China:
Pick up the phone and call the President. He is a tough but fair negotiator. The longer China holds out and retaliates, the worse the outcome for China.
Repeat after me
The birth rate is low because families cant afford a proper home to live in
before their biological clock times out
This is a cold, hard, brutal fact. Nature doesn't care about your feelings.
And, the Liberals mass immigration policy CAUSED this problem.
If Donald Trump really wanted to hurt Canada
he could offer (vetted) citizenship to any Canadian with an advanced degree
or a sought-after skill.
40-50% of skilled Conservatives would leave... and only the socialists would remain..... This would be extinction level.
SHOCKING
Our broken criminal Justice system is letting a man who shot an innocent woman on a Windsor street serve his sentence from the comfort of his home.
Liberal Bill C-5 legalized house arrest for gun crimes like this just 2 years ago.
Do you think this fair?