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2011

Now that the debt ceiling has been raised and the media have already turned to the question of how Obama will be celebrating his 50th birthday, it behooves us to consider the new market slump that has sunk in following registration of the reality of America’s debt situation.  Immediate crisis would seem to have been [...]

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Now we know that a whopping 32 states are officially bankrupt, and that apparently, the US government has been engaged in shadow bailouts of these states, i.e., “giving them money under the table.”
In addition, all that money that states borrowed from the Federal government in order to continue to pay unemployment benefits?  Now they won’t [...]

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The other day, a reader reminded me of the post I wrote a year and a half ago on the coming double-digit inflation.  More and more, lately in the news we hear snippets about inflation cropping up in the food prices around the world.  Yet inflation is still almost taboo to talk about inside the [...]

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Oil and gold prices are ending 2010 on new near-term breakout highs.  After a post-crash slump that kept oil around $60-$68, oil broke out to the $80-85 range for much of 2010, but in December oil’s made new breakouts yet again.
Just this past week or so, oil touched through $90 for the first time since [...]

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Pengrowth Energy Trust (TSX: PGF.UN) will be making the conversion to a corporate structure effective January 1, 2011.
Pengrowth will trade under the symbol “PGF” on the TSX and under the name “Pengrowth Corporation.”  On the NYSE, Pengrowth will likely trade under the ticker “PGH.”
Should You Sell Your Trusts Before 2011?
Pengrowth New Monthly Dividends
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The CML Healthcare Income Fund (TSX: CLC.UN) will be converting to a corporate structure on January 1, 2011.  The Fund’s income trust structure will be reorganized into a corporation called “CML HealthCare Inc,” and unitholders will automatically become shareholders of this new structure.
According to the information circular sent out to investors in November, “the proposed conversion [...]

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As of January 1, 2011, Bell Aliant Regional Communication Income Fund Unites (TSX: BA.UN) will complete the conversion from an income trust structure to a corporate structure.
Changes to Canadian taxation rules that come into effect on January 1st entail that Canadian income trusts will now be subject to taxation just as if they were corporations.  [...]

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