July Market Insights: The Six Months Where Everything Changed
July 8, 2025 The Federal Reserve, central bank ideology, and the future of economic order “The Federal Reserve… is in the position of the chaperone who has ordered the punch bowl removed just when the party was really warming up.” – William McChesney Martin Jr., U.S. Federal Reserve chair, in a 1955 speech Download this […]
June Market Insights: The New Nexus of Power
June 10, 2025 Debt, deals, and the dawning tech epoch The factors which really constitute prosperity have not the remotest connection with military or naval power, all our political jargon notwithstanding. – Norman Angell, The Great Illusion (1910) Download this PDF here. For decades, the American establishment clung to the gospel of globalization, open markets, […]
May Market Insights: From Hegemony to Balance
May 13, 2025 The Mar-a-Lago strategy and the future of American power “War is the continuation of politics by other means.” – Carl von Clausewitz (1832) Download this PDF here. In an era of unprecedented geopolitical and economic shifts, the Mar-a-Lago Accord signals a decisive, disruptive strategy by the U.S. to redefine its global influence […]
Canadian Election Special Market Insights: Carney’s Canada
April 30, 2025 THE ILLUSION OF A REVIVAL OR A PRELUDE TO RECKONING? “I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared.” – Thomas Jefferson Download this PDF here. Now that the Canadian election is over and Mark Carney has […]
April Market Insights: Embracing a Multipolar World
April 8, 2025 Unlocking a new golden era for investors “The condition of man … is a condition of war of everyone against everyone;” yet, by the mutual agreement of sovereign powers, peace may be obtained, and the benefits of order secured. – Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651) Download this PDF here. The signing of the […]
March Market Insights: From Trump’s Demands to Canada’s Destiny
March 6, 2025 Charting a new course in a shifting world order “A statesman must wait and listen until he hears the steps of God sounding through events; then leap up and grasp the hem of his garment.” – Otto von Bismarck Download this PDF here. Bismarck’s 19th-century declaration about the changing realities of geopolitics […]
February Market Insights: From Extremes To Centre
February 6, 2025 Charting a New Path for Economics and Investing as Trump Returns and Trudeau Steps Down You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. – Victor Hugo Download this PDF here. The Shifting Political Landscape In today’s politically charged […]
Q4 2024 Quarterly Compass Newsletter
Before we start off this quarter’s Compass, I wanted to share a quick personal update. In mid-November, I suffered a bout with a ruptured appendix which left me in the hospital for the better part of 8 days in very serious condition—thankfully recovery has been swift, and I am feeling like my old […]
January Market Insights: The Digital Gold Rush
January 7, 2025 How Bitcoin Became America’s Unlikely Saviour “If you are going to put a legend on the greenbacks, I would suggest that of Peter and Paul, ‘Silver and gold I have none, but such as I have I give to thee.” – Abraham Lincoln [1] Download this PDF here. In our fast-paced world, we […]
2024 Fall Economic Statement
December 17, 2024 Download this article as a PDF. On December 16, 2024, amid a tumultuous day at Parliament Hill, the Federal Government released its heavily delayed 2024 Fall Economic Statement (FES 2024). Earlier that day, Chrystia Freeland resigned as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance. In her absence, FES 2024 was tabled, […]