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If you’re a Canadian investor or you follow the commodities market, you’ve heard of BHP Billiton’s hostile takeover proposal for Saskatchewan’s Potash Corporation of Canada (TSX: POT) last week.
BHP Billiton proposed a buyout of Potash at a price of just $130/share. A price significantly lower than the June 2008 highs above $200/share that we saw [...]
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Over the past 5 years I’ve had the opportunity to buy, operate, and sell five franchised restaurants. The restaurant businesses, and specifically franchised restaurants, have provided significant additional cash flow for my family (on top of my earnings as a financial advisor 2002-2006, and now private equity fund manager 2007-present).
I think the key is [...]
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This should be interesting. I’m glad I won’t be a BCE holder much longer. Today’s story in the Financial Post (Toronto) – Google Slams Bell for Throttling Internet – shows that Bell Canada is still being held to task for its bandwidth control practices. I checked up on the share prices, but there isn’t much [...]
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Lately I’ve found a new source of distraction in this sporadically intriguing book by David Rothkopf:
The book is ostensibly about the world’s power elite and the nature of their power, wealth and influence. Sounds like predictable, run-of-the-mill summer reading? It’s not. It’s actually quite a nuanced approach to the subject. Rothkopf [...]
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