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Why buying a house is a bad investment

More than two centuries ago, the economist Adam Smith produced his landmark tome, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, in which he wrote, "a dwelling-house, as such, contributes nothing to the revenue of its inhabitant." The ...

From JOE CASTALDO, Canadian Business Online,  11 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Federal Reserve,  Jim Flaherty,  Yale School of Management,  Edward Glaeser

Turning iPhones into Babel fish

In 1954, IBM demonstrated the first computerized language translation. The room-filling IBM 701, fed with punch cards and armed with a vocabulary of 250 words, translated Russian text to English in a few seconds. The Financial Times reported, "It is ...

From JOE CASTALDO, Canadian Business Online,  8 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Carnegie Mellon University

Olympics: The designer Games

The opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympic Games are more than just gratuitous displays of nationalism. They’re also the most watched fashion shows in the world. The theatrics of these multi-hour spectacles have much in common with high-fashion ...

From JOE CASTALDO, Canadian Business Online,  19 Feb 2010

Related Topics: Nancy Kerrigan,  Polo Ralph Lauren,  Dan Caten,  Adidas,  Rihanna

Wireless power

For all of the progress we’ve made in developing wireless phones and Internet, we still depend on wires for one thing: when our devices run out of juice, we have to plug them into the wall. The more devices, the more tangled that mess of wires becomes. ...

From JOE CASTALDO, Canadian Business Online,  18 Feb 2010

Related Topics: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Research In Motion: And now the hard part

To truly appreciate what kind of obstacles and potential obliteration Research In Motion faces in the era of the iPhone and other “smartphone” competitors — not to mention how it might almost as easily continue to innovate, dominate and grow, grow, ...

From JOE CASTALDO, Canadian Business Online,  29 Jan 2010

Related Topics: Jim Balsillie,  Motorola, Inc.,  Mike Lazaridis,  Google Inc.,  Gartner, Inc.

Economy: The perils of positive thinking

It sure seemed like the world had enough layoffs, sell-offs and frantic corporate restructurings in 2009. But apparently not, according to a recent study by Boston Consulting Group. BCG surveyed nearly 450 executives at companies with more than US$1 ...

From JOE CASTALDO, Canadian Business Online,  15 Jan 2010

Related Topics: Donald Kohn,  Federal Reserve

New Skype seeks users who pay

EBay announced on Nov. 19 that it had finally completed the sale of a majority stake in Skype Technologies to a group of investors, including the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. While the sale was a struggle — Skype's founders launched a legal ...

From JOE CASTALDO, Canadian Business Online,  18 Dec 2009

Related Topics: Skype,  eBay Inc.,  Janus Friis,  AT&T Inc.

Financial services: Bay Street suffers a talent deficit

This time last year, layoffs were rampant on Bay Street. Cannacord Capital, GMP Capital Trust and AGF Management all cut staff by about 10%; CIBC chopped 700 jobs; more recently, Bank of Montreal announced it would shed 3% of its workforce. Today? ...

From JOE CASTALDO, Canadian Business Online,  25 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Bernard Madoff,  Enron Corporation

Investing: Are you getting too old to invest on your own?

At nearly 104 years old, Irving Kahn is credited with being the oldest active investor on Wall Street. His firm, Kahn Bros. Group, returned an average of 10.9% per year between 1994 and 2008, according to The Wall Street Journal, outperforming the S&P 5 ...

From JOE CASTALDO, Canadian Business Online,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Wall Street Journal,  Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago,  Harvard University,  New York University,  New York Times Company

2010 Investing Guide

Given the hammering most portfolios suffered last year, it's tempting to play it safe in 2010. And that's exactly what you should do with at least 80% of your holdings. But studies show you may be more disciplined with your core investments if you ...

From BRYAN BORZYKOWSKI, JOE CASTALDO AND CALVIN LEUNG, Canadian Business Online,  13 Nov 2009

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