December Market Insights: 2026 and the King Dollar Revival
December 4, 2025 Why Trump’s policies will power America’s financial supremacy in a multipolar era “The report of my death was an exaggeration.” – Mark Twain Download this PDF here. Rumours of the U.S. dollar’s decline are as persistent as they are exaggerated. In 2025, one fact stands out: The global U.S. dollar system—“King Dollar”[1]—is […]
Highlights from the 2025 Federal Budget
Download this article as a PDF On November 4, 2025, Finance Minister and National Revenue Minister François-Philippe Champagne tabled the much-anticipated 2025 Federal Budget (Budget 2025). With no spring budget earlier this year, Canadians have been eager for insights into the government’s fiscal priorities and economic direction. Our Advanced Wealth Planning Group has summarized the […]
November Market Insights: Wealth In A Capex Supercycle
October 30, 2025 Fuller’s energy-intelligence fusion, McLuhan’s tool-building refrain, and in search of the Holy Grail “Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.” – attributed to Buckminster Fuller Download this PDF here. Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy channeled into artifacts that enhance […]
October Market Insights: Trump, Carney and the Western Awakening
October 1, 2025 A new era for Canada is about to begin “I read in a newspaper that I was to be received with all the honors customarily rendered to a foreign ruler. I am grateful for the honors; but something within me rebelled at that word ‘foreign’. I say this because when I […]
September Market Insights: Bull Markets, Peace Dividends, and the Federal Reserve’s Next War
September 4, 2025 Investing at the crossroads of history “A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.” – Francis Bacon, The Essays (1597) Download this PDF here. The edge of transformation Bacon’s wisdom, that true prosperity is won by strategic preparation, not by accident, serves as the north star for sophisticated investors navigating […]
August Market Insights: The Unreasonable Rally
August 12, 2025 Why America’s reset could propel the S&P 500 to 7,500 “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” – George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists Download this PDF here. The new American […]
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 […]