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Sources of Influence on Mental Health

In the previous issue of Invested, we explored the economic impact that the lack of mental health care has in Canada and around the world. In this issue, we look at examples of external forces that affect a person’s mental health and how funding sectors outside of health care can decrease the overall economic burden. In the […]

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Policy Pivots & the Federal Reserve Reaction Function

Since the onset of the Great Financial Crisis (GFC) in 2008 – and maybe back to the Dot Com bust in 2000 – market participants have become accustomed to easy financial policy and a supportive Federal Reserve (Fed). As discussed in Inflation – Why So Much Focus?, “[s]uccessive Federal Reserve Chairs have now followed Mr. Greenspan, […]

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The Acorn Optimist

Financial markets are always changing. This is not a new idea, but rather an accepted truth about their very nature. Being the sum-total of human consensus, markets capture and distill a great deal of information about a given entity into a single number: the price. As time has progressed and technologies and economies have grown, […]