The Wide Lens

I watched The Karate Kid last week. It's not the first time I've seen it, but it was the first time I watched it with my two boys - it...

And that's a wrap for the first half of the year, and the results are in. Stocks are (much) higher than they were at the beginning of the...

Everyone writing or speaking has an agenda. What about you, Robert, I hear you ask? Of course, I do too. As much as I love reading and...

Followers and readers would know my wife and I put our property up on the market back in August of 2022. If you missed my blog post the...

My son played his first soccer game over the weekend. He's playing under 9's for a local club. It was so amazing for me to watch his...

I've been talking about this for sometime - the consumer, and their "hunch" for what is yet to come. Yet they've been consistently wrong...

I came across this chart last week, and on Friday night a friend of mine also sent it through to me and asked whether there was any...

It doesn't feel like stuff is going up in price as much as it used to - do you also feel the same way? We recently had the US release...

Allow me to pull back the curtain and give you a snippet into how the consumer is trending right now. US households are in excellent...

Everyone loves a bear market - especially the talking heads you see on TV. Bull markets are harder to love. The narrative of the bears...

Hello. I don't recall having as many school holidays when I was a child as my two children do, and certainly not for as long! After...

What a year 2022 was, and what a first quarter of 2023 it has been. The market is finally cracking from the rapid rise in interest rates...

We were all cheering for a hold on rates by the US Fed. Alas, we were greeted with a short jab to the guts with a 0.25 bps rise. It's...

Following last week's events, which appear to have rolled into this week too, financial markets around the world are pricing in rate cuts...

This is the biggest and only story in town right now. Here's my take: SVB was the bank of choice for Silicon Valley's hot start-ups. As...

Most headlines I read nowadays are about how much the average loan repayment has increased by and will increase by for Australians. You...

What is property credit? Property credit, also known as real estate credit, is a type of financing that is used to purchase, develop, or...