Category: It’s Probably Nothing

Gradually, Then Suddenly

Now, factor in the crash coming to vacation condos in Mexico.

Circling The Drain

Home sales are plunging, particularly in Ontario, because no one is ever eager to sell below their expectations and/or at a loss. But buyers are in the driver’s seat now, and when the dam breaks we can sit back and watch the fire sales.

Canada’s real estate market opened 2026 in a slump, as national home sales fell 5.8 per cent month-over-month in January, while actual, non-seasonally adjusted transactions were down 16.2 per cent from a year earlier…

 

Self Driving Stock Values

I thought this AI thing was all win/win.

Cisco Systems dropped 12.3% despite likewise topping analysts’ expectations for profit and revenue last quarter. The tech giant indicated that it may make less profit off each $1 of revenue during the current quarter than it did in the past quarter.

More broadly, questions are rising about whether businesses that are spending heavily on AI will end up seeing high-enough profits and productivity to make the investments worth it.

 

Today in Pedophilia and Rape

Celina 101- In 2000, Lucy Lowe was sixteen years old. She had been groomed and repeatedly raped by a Pakistani man since the age of thirteen,

John Cleese- It’s disgraceful the BBC News should deliberately ignore this grooming-gang inquiry. It’s as though they are taking sides !

Basil the Great- Two Tier Policing

Daily Mail- ‘White girls are filthy’: Wives of Asian men jailed for raping vulnerable British girls reveal why they blame the victims

Gad Saad- Indigenous men don’t rape. They offer ancestral love.

CTV- Does Prime Minister Mark Carney appear in the Epstein files? Yes, but not in a meaningful capacity.

Former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s name also appears in the files a total of 27 times

Bonus content- UK HOSPITAL HIRES NURSE FOR INCEST BABIES

Money For Nothing

If some of the AI generated nonsense I’ve run across lately is going to become commonplace, it’s little wonder that investors are getting skittish.

Amazon.com shares slid 9% on Friday after the company outlined a planned $200 billion capital outlay for the year, stoking investor concerns about the scale of Big ​Tech’s spending on artificial intelligence.

Are we headed for what some are calling the Dead Internet Theory?

But the dead internet theory goes even further. Many of the accounts that engage with such content also appear to be managed by artificial intelligence agents. This creates a vicious cycle of artificial engagement, one that has no clear agenda and no longer involves humans at all.

Gradually, Then Suddenly


Race to the bottom: Glencore said on Tuesday it has suspended nearly $1 billion of planned investments at Horne Smelter, Canada’s largest copper metal-producing operation, after failing to secure regulatory certainty from the provincial government of Quebec.

No Retirement For You!

While most of these youngsters can see a problem, my guess is that only about ten percent of them can understand why it exists: it’s the inevitable outcome of an exponentially rising debt burden colliding with demographics.

A report by BMO published on Monday showed 73 per cent of millennials surveyed believe retirement planning will be more difficult than it was for their parents, followed by generation X at 67 per cent, generation Z at 61 per cent and boomers at 60 per cent.

If Wishes Were Mortgages…

Mortgage broker Ron Butler goes off on the concept of “blanket appraisals” in the Canadian mortgage market. Basically, they’re a form of fraud that allows lenders to pretend that mortgages on their balance sheets are worth much more than they actually are.

“…I bought it for a million… My lender says it’s only worth 820 and I don’t know what to do. Oh, don’t worry. Don’t worry. We have this… uh, developer loan bank. Yeah. No, no, we can get it done. Don’t worry…”

That Sinking Feeling

My advice to the Conservative Party of Canada: just be patient. Your time in the sun may be coming.

Statistics Canada says the economy stalled in November and early estimates suggest a decline in real gross domestic product for the final quarter of 2025.

November saw manufacturing of durable goods hit its lowest levels since 2011, outside the COVID-19 pandemic.

Update: Even the mainstream financial media is noticing that something is not right.

Canada’s main stock index fell 1,092.61 points or 3.3 per cent on Friday.

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