Hilliard’s Weekend Notebook


Thoughts, views and opinions as current events unfold: With topics taken from current market events and my latest book — When the Bubble Bursts: Surviving the Canadian Real Estate Crash (Dundurn: March 2015)  and my first book Investment Traps and How to Avoid Them (1999) — this short piece will give you unique and valuable insights filtered by my thirty-six years’ experience as an investment professional.
 

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Housing bubble in Canada one of the biggest

Published by Hilliard MacBeth on Jun 25, 2021

Canada has one of the largest housing bubbles in the world, according to Bloomberg Economics. The top 3 countries at risk are New Zealand, Canada and Sweden. The warnings signs are as intense as they were in the run-up to the global financial crisis in... Read more
The Federal Reserve hints at higher rates

Published by Hilliard MacBeth on Jun 18, 2021

A turning point for interest rates may have arrived. Federal Reserve members hinted at raising their official interest rate above zero sooner than expected. Until now the Fed had maintained that rates will stay “lower for longer” without any hint imminent... Read more
Higher inflation puts a popular investment at risk

Published by Hilliard MacBeth on Jun 11, 2021

U.S. Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation increased by 5 percent year-over-year, and 0.6 percent in the month of May - an annual rate of 7.2 percent. The core CPI, which excludes the volatile components of food and energy, rose even faster at 0.7 percent... Read more