I suspect that US oil and gas production will continue to rise, as it did under Obama, Trump I, and Biden. But it's highly unlikely there will be a massive increase, because US tight oil and gas… (View Post)

The Russian Central Bank will print Roubles, because that is the path of least resistance. This in turn will increase inflation, making the lives of everyday Russians even worse. The question is whet… (View Post)

The real estate market looks to be in particular trouble, and the risk of cascading failures has to be significant. There are multiple risk points for Russia right now: the domestic corporate bond ma… (View Post)

As an aside, one of the big problems with the US insurance industry is fraud. Now, I'm on the auto insurance side rather than the health insurance side, but we receive a staggering number of fra… (View Post)

You know: the US does have a point about Canada being very liberal with their tourist visas, and a substantial number of people (tens of thousands each year) using that to get into North America and … (View Post)