March 15th, 2011
Here’s an article from earlier this month about Canada’s real estate market. The building permits dropped 5.1% at the beginning of 2011. Real estate analysts was expecting an increase of 0.7 per cent in the seasonally adjusted figure, but the permits dropped instead.
The value of nonresidential permits fell by 13.3 per cent for 3 months straight to the lowest level since February 2009. Residential permits was down by 0.9 per cent from December on a 17.5 per cent fall in multifamily homes and the value of permits for single-family dwellings rose by 12.2 per cent to their highest level since April 2010.
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March 12th, 2011
RIM has fallen behind big time and they got to innovate fast as they have been leap frogged by Apple and Google. I’m Canadian and sure I want a Canadian technology company to succeed, but that doesn’t mean RIM will because I think they got too comfortable…RIM reminds me of Nortel and it might end up like Nortel if RIM doesn’t swallow its pride. Nortel got so big and popular and they rested on their laurels instead of looking to the future and innovating.
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RIM BlackBerry Smartphones and Tablet Is Behind The “Curve” – No Pun Intended
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March 12th, 2011
Few days ago, I was browsing the FutureShop.ca and on the front page FutueShop was having this 1 Deal-a-Day Promotion and on March 7th the deal was this spectacular deal on a 15.6 inch Acer Laptop. To be exact it was a Intel Core i3 380M (2.53 Ghz) 15 inch Laptop with 6 GB of RAM and 500 GB of hard drive space for the low price of $499.99.
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Bought a 15.6″ Acer 5742-6846 Intel Core i3 380M Laptop Notebook for $499 CAD – Regular $699 – What A Steal – March 7 & 11, 2011 One Day Deal! – Review
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March 8th, 2011
The Toronto Stock Exchange look like it is set to hit the previous high of around 15,000 points at which time my prediction is that it will take a turn downward. This could be a correction of sorts that I could profit from. The 15,000 level also looks to be a top of a cycle and from there it could very well be down hill for a while.
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Looking At Opening Position on HXD-TO – Horizons BetaPro S&P/TSX 60 Bear Plus ETF
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March 6th, 2011
If you have listened to Ben Bernake talk about the state of the U.S economy and about inflation last week, he basically shrugged it off. What Ben and the U.S government is doing is essentially lying to the American people…saying close your eyes there is no inflation, it is all in your heads. All part of tricking the american public into thinking that the economy is better than it actually is. The truth is that the economy is extremely fragile and inflation is out there and may put a stop into this fake economic recovery that was stimulated by printing more and more U.S dollars, sending the U.S dollar down and increasing the federal debt pushing it closer to 15 trillion.
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Close Your Eyes and Say There is No Inflation – U.S Gov Inflation Reports Cooked
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February 27th, 2011
Last year around autumn, August-September 2010 period Gerald Celente’s Trends Journal group predicted that the youth of the world will unite and protest against their governments, because food prices, oil prices and general living expenses are going up while their are no jobs and wages aren’t going up in-line with inflation.
Since then student’s in the U.K protested because the U.K government raised school tuition fees over 200%. As recent as last month Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen have protested and some have gotten extremely violent.
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Protest / Unrest Now In Eastern Europe and United States
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February 25th, 2011
Back in year 2003-2004 I worked at an enterprise technology company and was part of the outside sales team. There was two individuals that worked on the inside sales team…basically the group that offered sales support. The first guy let’s call him N. Singh and the second guy let’s call him J. Singh. These two individuals are real, NOT fictitious and it just so happens by coincidence that their last names are both Singh. They are also not related.
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The Tale of Two Singhs, BMW Makes Me A Big Shot – Living Beyond Your Means
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February 21st, 2011
Earlier in January, I spotted a Canadian rare earth mining company called Great Western Minerals group that trades on the Toronto Venture Exchange, stock symbol GWG.V that broke out from a sideways price consolidation. As you can see from the chart it was hovering at around $0.40 for quite a long time (3-4 months) and then it broke to the upside.
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Quick Trade and Profit On Canadian Rare Earth Stock – GWG.V – Great Western Minerals Group
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February 2nd, 2011
America has been saving 2% of every dollar they make (GDP), while China saves 35% of their GDP that is why they have a surplus and the U.S is 14 trillion dollars in debt.
It’s so easy for the U.S politicians to blame foreigners cause they look different and are in a foreign land, however America’s problem is self created. It’s always easier to look externally than look at yourself and come to terms with your mistakes…people do it all the time and it seems politicians are no different.
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Jim Rogers: Easy to Blame Americas Problems on China
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January 27th, 2011
In the 1930’s the American Government used currency as a weapon or currency war against China to de-stabilize Chinese society and incite a revolution that destroyed China. The U.S Government called it “The China De-Stabilization Plan”
In the 1930’s the Chinese currency, the Yuan was backed by and pegged against Silver prices. The U.S Goverment went on a propaganda campaign that advertised to the Chinese that an appreciation in the Chinese currency Yuan would bring with them an appreciation of the yuan against the U.S. dollar and would benefit the Chinese by increasing their purchasing power. However, they knew that it would actually cause economic havoc.
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January 26th, 2011
A greater number of Canadians feel that the economy is getting worse than last year. Now 20% up from 14% last year feel this way.
Some of the top concerns of Canadians are having enough money to retire, and improving personal finance. They feel that the Canadian economy maybe getting a little bit better by the government reports but at home things are getting worse, goods are more expensive (inflation), jobs are hard to find and people are still being laid off. So to the average Canadian, their personal finance situation really don’t feel any better.
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