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Europe’s sinking economy
Europe's GDP numbers have just been released today and they are miserable. They show the Netherlands and France in recession along with the rest of the periphery. And even outside the euro zone, we got some pretty dire numbers out of the…
Has house price deflation begun in Canada?
Yesterday, the Teranet-National Bank National Composite House Price Index for Canada was released. It showed that 12-month home price inflation in Canada was down to 2.0%, the lowest level since November 2009. And given the huge amount of…
Android is killing iOS with nearly 75% share in Q1 2013
Gartner's latest market share results are in and they show Google's Android operating system gaining significant market share in Q1 2013 to nearly 75%. That is a jump of almost 20% in just one year.
Some more thoughts on mobile-based computing
The mobile emphasis is insidious because I almost don't notice that mobile is an angle n nearly every story I see. And when I write mobile, I don't mean smartphones - or 'handheld computers - as Newt Gingrich calls them in the hilarious…
Some quick thoughts on quantitative easing and zero rate policy
I am not a fan of quantitative easing or zero rates. I think that is clear from my posts over the past 4 years. Nevertheless, I do like to link out to posts that put QE and zero rates in a more favourable light because we need to get a…
Japan: Some quick thoughts on Abenomics
This is just a quick follow-up to the last post on debt deflationary dynamics in Europe and the contrast to policy in Japan. I think Yanis Varoufakis has it right that Europe is on the same path as Japan but just not as far along the path.…