Post 327

04/08/2025 46 min
Post 327

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Starbucks is still seeing comparable store sales decline.But a fourth leg of their business is growing quickly.Chateau Lafite Rothschild is one of the world’s top wines.Its futures price is off 49% from its peak.Another look at the three main ways in which policymakers created Canada’s housing affordability crisis.They thought the benefits would trickle down to the next generation.Spoiler alert: they didn’t.Carbon Dioxide emissions by countryWho’s number one: USA, China or both?Microsoft is growing like gangbusters.And a $10,000 investment in its shares in 1986 would have grown to a tidy sum today.Facebook’s sales are also soaring.Its share price is up 54% over the last year.More evidence of a two-tier economy with older industrial type businesses seeing sales declines:A quick look at tools.Financial Ructions:You’re FiredTrump comes out guns blazing after record-breaking downward jobs revisions.Shoot first, ask questions later?In our book review of The Way the World Works:Jude Wanniski looks at Keynesians and the Monetarists.And how the decrease in the money supply in the early 1930s was warranted by a significant, policy-induced reduction in real output.