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Escaping the Inferno of Economic Uncertainty and Tending your own Financial Fire

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  Economic instability is like battling a raging wildfire with no clear path to safety. You can easily get caught off guard and not even know where to start. What we need to do first is take some stock of how we got here. This began as a dumpster fire and was fueled by many different sparks before it got so ablaze. A legacy of kicking the gas can down the road to disguise economic downturns has been like a Molotov cocktail; exploding inflation that has spiraled out of control. Incompetent and malevolent governments lit the fuse of global political tensions, with seemingly nobody fit to put out the flames. These factors have created a financial reality, where everything from your retirement portfolio to the cost of your weekly groceries swings wildly, leaving responsible Canadians feeling like the whole house of cards is burning down. How Markets Move in Uncertain Times When uncertainty strikes, markets dance to their own wild rhythm. Stocks can be jittery, prices bouncing around as com

How to Beat DEI and ESG: Companies to Short and Profit from the 'Go Woke, Go Broke' Trend

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The corporate governance world is undergoing a disturbing change. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are constructs that are being pushed to the very top of the corporate agenda. At the same time, supposedly 'green' (i.e., environmentally friendly) concerns have been rapidly relegated to a more obscure part of the agenda. There is thus an increasing insistence that companies, and the colleges and universities that educate corporate leaders, first and foremost, must reckon with DEI as a top priority. Not leaving any stone unturned, the new insistence is also influencing corporate governance not just as a matter of who gets to rule over what (the usual description of governance), but as also having everything to do with how the rulers over business accomplish their agenda of reconstituting the societies in which we all live. Powerful organizations, such as BlackRock—under the direction of its CEO, Larry Fink—and think-tanks such as the World Economic Forum (WEF), are the driving fo