by Securityfinancial | Apr 26, 2017 | Leo's Blog
Late last week, Premier Kathleen Wynne announced a series of changes that are aimed at cooling the hot housing market in the GTA. With fears that the market has entered bubble territory, the government felt that intervention was necessary to take aim at foreign...
by Securityfinancial | Apr 13, 2017 | Leo's Blog
As Canadians, we typically vent about the amount of money we are paying to our Governments. Every year it seems like this amount is getting larger, but we never really examine how much we are paying relative to other Nations. A recent report from the OECD ranked 37...
by Securityfinancial | Dec 16, 2016 | Leo's Blog
During the last Federal Reserve System meeting of 2016, Janet Yellen has announced an increase to interest rates in the United States by 0.25%. As it stands, interest rates in the U.S. are at 0.75% but the Federal Reserve has signaled for approximately three more rate...
by Securityfinancial | Oct 14, 2016 | Leo's Blog
I wanted to share a report from TD Economics in regards to the larger and more persistent federal budget deficits expected well into 2017. The main causes for the increased deficits appear to be a slowing of economic growth from what was projected by Finance Minister...
by Securityfinancial | Aug 26, 2016 | Leo's Blog
I wanted to share the findings of a recent report from the Fraser Institute regarding the amount of hidden taxes paid by Canadians. The Fraser Institute is a Canadian independent non-partisan research organization which operates as a think-tank focused on Canadian...
