Retirement

Angelo Katsoras has been a geopolitical analyst with National Bank of Canada since December 2008. Previously, he was a Research Analyst with LaCaisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, a position he held since January 2005. From 2000 to 2004 he was a...

"The market correction over the past two-and-a-half weeks will go down as the fastest in history — no other period has experienced a greater than 20 per cent drop in such a short period of time. We’re now in full panic mode with stocks being sold...

Many investors were in low spirits at this time last year, a period where nearly all assets offered losses and the U.S. equity market had just undergone its worst December since 1931. Fast forward to today and we are looking at just the opposite...

Why do we have central banks? We argue that, in its most basic form, the main purpose of having an independent institution in charge of monetary policy is to smooth out the inevitable ups and downs of business cycles so that a society and its people...