March 21, 2026 | This Week in Money

• Ross Clark: Stock Markets, Gold, Silver, Bitcoin, Oil, Interest Rates.
• Marc Faber: (10:16) US Iran War, Tariffs, Gold, Silver.
• Jim Willie:  (41:23) Oil, Gold, Silver, Copper, USD, Cryptos.

March 20, 2026 | Why Canada’s Housing Market Isn’t Done Correcting

Canada has entered a new demographic and economic phase—one defined not by the rapid population expansion of the post‑pandemic years, but by a sharp and deliberate cooling. Statistics Canada’s latest estimates show the country’s population fell by more than 100,000 people in 2025, the first annual decline since records began in the 1940s. The drop […]

March 20, 2026 | The Historical Up and Downs of Oil

Sri Lanka’s unique approach to saving energy

March 19, 2026 | Bank of Canada Admits It Can’t ‘Save’ Bubbles

The Bank of Canada press conference yesterday finally admitted facts about Canada’s housing market: “The housing market is looking weaker, and weaker than we had incorporated into our January outlook. So, that’s something we will be looking at when we prepare the April outlook.” Canadian home prices “need to come down” and “housing feeds into our forecast […]

March 18, 2026 | Crisis in Cuba – Sanctions, Starvation, and Blackouts

  What we are witnessing in Cuba right now is the same failed policy recycled once again, dressed up under a different administration, with the same predictable outcome. The power grid collapsed, millions were left in the dark, food supply chains broke down, and the government blamed the United States while Washington pretended this was […]

March 17, 2026 | Debt Burdens Outweigh Bank of Canada Cuts

With higher oil prices expected to impact inflation, financial markets shifted from anticipating rate cuts to considering the possibility of rate hikes in Canada. In response, longer-term bond yields rose for the first couple of weeks of March, pushing up borrowing costs. About 1.15 million Canadians are expected to renew their mortgages in 2026. Renewing […]

March 16, 2026 | Health Prepping: ADHD Is a Business Scam, Not a Disease

Today’s schools are pleasant environments for some kids and torture chambers for others. In particular, boys with short attention spans and high energy are deemed mentally ill and drugged into sitting still for eight hours a day. Like so many current things, this is a scam designed to enrich a small group of providers (in […]

March 16, 2026 | Canada Quietly Turns Back to Nuclear as Net Zero Collides With Reality

For years, politicians across the Western world have insisted that windmills and solar panels would power the future while reliable energy sources were dismantled in the name of climate policy. Now reality is beginning to intrude. Canada is preparing to unveil a national electricity strategy centered on expanding nuclear power as governments confront a basic […]

March 15, 2026 | Liquidity Crisis 2026

QUESTION: Marty, I want to thank you for your warning about Blackrock. I took out 90% with the October high and the rest in January when Socrates showed a Panic Cycle Year in 2026. I did not invest in their Ukraine project. I heard because of your advice to stay out they could not raise any […]

March 14, 2026 | Trading Desk Notes for March 14, 2026

Trade the price, not the story The “uncertainty” created by the war in Iran is affecting all of the markets I trade, especially crude oil. I’ve watched videos and read “tons” of theories about why this war is happening, how it’s going, how it will impact other markets, how it will end, and how it will […]

March 14, 2026 | This Week in Money

• Ross Clark: Stock Markets, Oil, USD, Canadian Dollar, Bitcoin, Gold, Silver.
• Eric Hadik: (11:55) Market Cycles, Gold, Silver, Platinum, Palladium, USD, Bitcoin, Oil, Natural Gas, Lithium, Sell in May?
• Hilliard MacBeth: (38:54) Canadian Real Estate, Tariffs, Money Laundering, Electric Vehicles.

March 13, 2026 | AI’s Power Hunger

  The biggest constraint on artificial intelligence is not chips, software, or capital. It is electricity. Now the tech giants are finally admitting it. Seven major companies, including Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, Oracle, and xAI, have signed a pledge committing to supply or finance their own power generation for the massive AI data centers […]

March 13, 2026 | Trump Gambles on War with Iran

Trump’s Iran Gamble Could Trigger an Oil Shock 20 percent. That is the share of global oil supply that normally passes through the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow shipping channel between Iran and Oman. If Iran keeps that chokepoint blocked, the consequences for inflation, interest rates and the global economy could be severe. The recent […]

March 13, 2026 | The Warning Sign that the Market is About to Crash

Will Gold rise if US Dollar becomes chronically firm?

March 12, 2026 | US Inflation Looks Tame for Now — But That May Not Last

  The latest CPI report for February 2026 came in largely as expected, and, on the surface, Washington will likely celebrate the numbers. Consumer prices rose 0.3% for the month and 2.4% year-over-year. Core CPI, excluding food and energy, rose 0.2% for the month and is running at 2.5% annually. By the standards of the […]

March 12, 2026 | Market Proving Dow 50,000 was a Bull Trap

Room for Bitcoin to grow

March 12, 2026 | Stock Markets Showing Signs of Topping Out

Copper market confusing

March 11, 2026 | Canada’s Housing Crisis Shows the Consequences of the Easy Money Era

Canada’s housing market has become one of the most expensive in the developed world, and the affordability crisis continues to worsen despite rising interest rates. Mortgage payments as a share of household income are now near record levels, leaving many first-time buyers completely priced out of the market while existing homeowners face significantly higher borrowing […]

March 11, 2026 | Oil Companies the Big Iran War Winners

Uranium and fertilizer could be the next big things to soar higher

March 10, 2026 | Fuel Costs Tax Everyone

Last week’s near 35% spike in the price of oil (WTIC) was the biggest gain in futures trading history, dating back to 1983 (shown below, courtesy of Bespoke Investment Group). After closing at $90.90 a barrel on Friday, the price rose to $119.48 intraday yesterday, then slumped 15% to $80 this afternoon. That’s still up 47% […]

March 9, 2026 | Upsetting the Apple Cart

Happy Monday Morning! Last week we wrote a piece titled ‘Landmark Agreements’ in which the Federal Government signed an agreement acknowleding aboriginal title for the Musqueam First Nations across most of Metro Vancouver. It was a “Landmark Agreement” according to the Feds, yet received zero mainstream media coverage. Why it received so little coverage we’ll […]

March 8, 2026 | Zuckerberg’s Huge Branding Problem

[Your editor is taking a busman’s holiday in San Francisco. Although trading touts will update as usual and I’ll be active in the chat room, this commentary and the next come from the archive. You can judge for yourself whether they were sufficiently on-target to still be relevant. RA] Stocks looked leaden as the week ended, […]

March 8, 2026 | Has the Great Taking Begun?

If you (like me) keep mixing up Blackstone and BlackRock, you can relax now. They’re both in serious financial trouble, so you can assert that either is “imploding” and be more-or-less right: BlackRock fund limits withdrawals as redemptions rattle private credit (Reuters) – BlackRock (BLK.N) said on Friday it has limited withdrawals from a flagship debt fund […]

March 7, 2026 | This Week in Money

• Ross Clark:  Stock Markets, Oil, Gold, Silver, Copper, USD, Canadian Dollar, Bitcoin.
• Martin Straith:  (11:55) Stock Markets, Oil, Strait of Hormuz.
• David Brett:  (46:23) Mining Industry, Aboriginal Land Claims.