Tag Archives: bubble

A Brief Interlude From Fantasyland

Vancouver’s real estate market used to be notoriously fickle. Now it’s notoriously predictable. No matter what happens to our local economy or further afield, it just won’t stop going up. By contrast, it’s commonly understood that the US housing market is, not to put too fine a point on it, f*#ked, with average resale prices [...]

Mobile Advertising’s Unknown Unknowns

A friend in the investment banking industry once cautioned me about working for a public company traded on a junior exchange. In his words, “the value never catches up with the promote.” By which he meant that a story that’s been sold simply to drive up the share price isn’t sustainable in the real world, [...]