The beauty industry is a booming business totalling $3.5 billion in Canada alone. You might think people would appear more plain-faced during economic downturns, choosing to forego spending on makeup—but the lipstick index demonstrates that the opposite might be true.
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Canada's got a housing supply shortage, and it’s getting worse: The latest data from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) showed that housing starts for March declined 11% from February.
In the fourth grade, I paid a boy $20 for a gold POG slammer, confident I could get more for it or trade it for an abundance of Sailor Moon POGs. I was wrong.
In last week's edition, we explored safe haven assets. One of them was bonds—they are a low-risk, fixed-income option with a steady, scheduled payout but don't offer exceptionally high yields (since the risk is so low.)
If you’re feeling like a rudderless ship in a stormy sea of investment uncertainties, you might want to find a safe harbour for your cash and park it in a safe haven asset for the short term.
Yesterday was International Women’s Day, a global celebration of the progress and achievements of women. But according to the United Nations, gender equality still has a long way to go. (Secretary-General António Guterres said it’s 300 years away.)
Looking for an easy way to build wealth? The "magic" of compound interest might be the trick you're looking for.
If you’re keeping up with economic news, you’ve probably seen a lot of blurbs about higher wages and inflation—but why are economists so concerned about how these things interact with each other?