The Insider
Tony Wanless is the Insider, the top BCBusiness all-purpose business analyst and commenter. Each week in BCBusiness, the Insider delivers trenchant wit and startling erudition on the business issues, broad and fine, emerging each day in BC.
May 25, 2012 The Insider: Energy and Resources
The government ordered the utilities commission to agree with BC Hydro's reduced rate increases, but that's nothing new. When it comes to increasing utility rates, it's been a longstanding practice in B.C. for government to interfere.
I admit to being more than a little amused at the squealing going on over the Liberal government’s interference in BC Hydro’s rate setting. It was so predictable.
If you haven’t heard by now, the government rendered the B.C. Utilities Commission powerless this week by terminating commission hearings into the utility’s proposal to...
May 23, 2012 The Insider: Economy
A recent study out of Ottawa insists that the federal government gave Canada's biggest banks a "secret bailout" during the financial crisis of 2008-2009. Not quite, says the government: It was just a loan to create "liquidity support."
Much after the fact comes support for the theory that Canadian banks didn’t exactly escape the “financial crash” of 2008 that drove the U.S. and Europe into recessions that they’re still climbing out of.
A recent report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives claimed there was a $114-billion “secret...
May 21, 2012 The Insider: Economy
The Canada Pension Plan fund is one of the world's best investors, showing sterling returns in the worst decade for investing we've seen in the past 200 years. But nobody outside the investing community seems to know about it.
If you’re worried about your government pension in the future, don’t be. The Canada Pension Plan is doing very well, thank you. And it will continue to do so for the next 60 years or so.
The plan’s fund hit a record high of $161.6 billion last year, a 6.6-per-cent increase over the previous year (which in turn showed an 11.9-per-cent increase over its...
May 17, 2012 The Insider: Homes and Real Estate
Skyrocketing real estate prices have reached their inevitable conclusion, apparently stopping the real estate frenzy of recent years. This year so far, house prices have fallen by some 20 per cent in the Vancouver region. It's about time.
All those taking part in Vancouver’s favourite investing game – real estate – may want to consider another pursuit. Meanwhile, those who were shut out of the market because of absurd prices may be getting some relief, albeit still minor.
It seems the local real estate market is on the skids – not exactly crashing, but certainly slowing...
May 11, 2012 The Insider: Energy and Resources
Stocks in companies that mine gold and other commodities are currently down; and nobody is suffering more than B.C.'s large cohort of junior mineral exploration companies. But the world is changing, and the market will change with it.
Gold stocks are in the dumper these days – although, paradoxically, gold prices aren’t – and so the promoters and other denizens of Howe Street are pretty gloomy. While gold is the thing most of them chase, stocks of companies in other commodities or resources, except for oil, aren’t doing so well either.
There are many theories (take...
May 08, 2012 The Insider: Media, Arts and Entertainment
Digital effects are the new star in Vancouver's creative sector. But before we shower too much love on digital special effects, we might want to look at what's happened to some of the other creative industries here.
It looks like the creative industry has found a new star.
By that, I mean Vancouver’s rising new “star” on the global stage – its digital media sector – which was touted by Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson in a recent Vancouver Sun story.
Gregor was agog (sorry, I couldn’t resist) over Vancouver being invited to one of...
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Brian Wong, CEO of Kiip Inc.,
on being a 21-year-old CEO
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