I was the first investment blogger to ‘jump on’ the investment risks that might be created by the coronavirus. In fact, when I first penned on the subject in February of 2020, the virus was not then known as COVID-19. And we were not yet in a global pandemic. New cases were just starting to […]
Looking to the year ahead on Weekend Reads.
Welcome to the first Weekend Reads post of 2021. Who knows what the year 2021 has in store for us? In January of 2020 we didn’t have a clue. It’s human nature to think that we at least have some sense of where things are going. In early 2021 we are planning our escape from […]
The 2020 year in review.
It was the year of the first modern pandemic. Will it be the decade of the pandemic, or pandemics? Or will 2021 put the COVID-19 pandemic in the rear view mirror? Well, we’ll be writing that story in a year from now. What we do know is that the pandemic dominated the year in every […]
The Canadian comeback on Weekend Reads.
The Canadian economy and Canadian stock markets have taken it on the chin thanks to the pandemic. Canadian stocks have lagged US stocks. But some market prognosticators feel that better days and months are ahead for the Canadian economy and Canadian stock markets. While Canada is in the midst of a troubling COVID wave, we […]
Sunday reads. What a week it was.
OK, whoever is writing this stuff (the script for the world in which we live) is doing a bang up job. The twists and turns, the use of irony and dramatic foreshadowing, the list of characters and the character assassinations. So many literary devices on display. Hollywood screenwriters could not to a better job. In […]
How does the global pandemic end? With a cold.
In From Killer to Common Cold Dr. David Graham takes an investigative approach to track down this new serial killer. Of course the killer in question is SARS-coV-2, the villain in the first modern-day pandemic. The virus leads to the sickness known as COVID-19. Dr. Graham suggests that within 2 to 5 years SARS-coV-2 will […]