Posts Tagged: banks

The Financial Times wonders “What Toronto can teach New York and London”. So much really.

Chrystia Freeland of the Financial Times with a great article on why Canada’s banking industry didn’t need a bailout, and still makes good money. Oh – and why it’s the envy of the world, which it is.
The article does waste some time considering whether our banks’ continued solvency is related to our [...]


Paul Krugman calls Canadian banks boring, tedious, sound.

Nobel Prize in Economics winner and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has very nice things to say about the boring state of Canadian banking.  Turns out all those Reagan-era banking reforms that allowed Yankee banks to take unsustainable levels of risk were resisted north of the border, leaving our banks in good shape while [...]


Zakaria gushes over all things Canadian

Fareed Zakaria, the editor of Newsweek International and author of “The Post-American World” just sent us the nicest note. By note, of course I mean he wrote an article in Newsweek, and by nice, I mean that in it he positively gushes over Canada. Zakaria’s apparent love for all things Canadian is so enthusiastic, his [...]