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- June 30, 2025 - Market Watch | When Genius Failed | Oil
- May 30, 2025 - Market Watch | American Rascal | Valeriepieris Circle
- April 30, 2025 - Market Watch | Gold & the U.S. Dollar | India
- March 31, 2025 - Market Watch | The Energy Transition | International Fund Flows
- February 28, 2025 - Market Watch | American Exceptionalism | Southeast Asia
- January 31, 2025 - Market Watch | Lords of Finance | China
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- December 31, 2024 - Market Watch | How Asia Works | A Potential Game Changer
- November 28, 2024 - Market Watch | Noble Deaths | Great Powers Index
- October 31, 2024 - Market Watch | Chip War | Genghis Khan
- September 30, 2024 - Market Watch | Three Tigers | Where Capitalism Is Working
- August 30, 2024 - Market Watch | Bangladesh | The New Koreans
- July 25, 2024 - Market Watch | Prisoners of Geography | The Right Kind of Stubborn
- June 27, 2024 - Market Watch | How to Think About Debt | Mao's Art of War
- May 30, 2024 - Market Watch | Asia | Interactive AI
- April 25, 2024 - Market Watch | Federal Budget 2024 | The Indispensability of Risk
- March 28, 2024 - Market Watch | Pattern Recognition | Turn Every Page
- February 29, 2024 - Market Watch | Darwin | Life is Short
- January 25, 2024 - Market Watch | The Power Broker | Citizen Jane
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- December 21, 2023 - Market Watch | Immoderate Greatness | Solution by Recognition
- November 30, 2023 - Market Watch | Remembering Charlie Munger | Keeping At It
- October 26, 2023 - Market Watch | 15 Lessons | The Land of Rising Profits
- September 29, 2023 – Market Watch | The Great Wealth Transfer | The Dawn of the AI Era
- August 31, 2023 – Market Watch | Decoded | Finding Your Favourite Problems
- July 27, 2023 – Market Watch | Claude 2 | On Semiconductors
- June 1, 2023 – Market Watch | The Way of Kings | Artificial Intelligence
- April 27, 2023 – Market Watch | What's Our Problem? | Crony Beliefs
- March 30, 2023 - Market Watch | The Soviet Union | Science vs Pseudoscience
- February 23, 2023 - Market Watch | On Russia | Demographics
- January 26, 2023 - Market Watch | Miracle and Wonder | Reversals in Psychology
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- December 22, 2022 - Market Watch | First Principles | Happy Holidays!
- November 24, 2022 - Market Watch | Endure | The Next Warren Buffett
- October 27, 2022 - Market Watch | Montaigne | John Denver
- September 29, 2022 - Market Watch | Cato the Younger | Illusions of Knowledge
- August 25, 2022 - Market Watch | Why History Matters | Human Resources
- July 25, 2022 - Market Watch | Patio Pondering
- June 18, 2022 - Market Watch | Financial Update
- May 26, 2022 - Market Watch | The Last Lion
- April 15, 2022 - Market Watch | Financial Things
- March 31, 2022 - Market Watch |Big Changes
- February 24, 2022 - Market Watch | Ukraine
- January 27, 2022 - Best of 2021 | The Pareto Funtier
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- December 2021 - Market Watch | It's Been A Year
- November 25, 2021 - Market Watch | Exponential Age | Inflation
- October 28, 2021 - Market Watch | Global Energy Crunch | History's Seductive Beliefs
- September 30, 2021 - Market Watch | Chop Wood, Carry Water | Natural Gas
- August 26, 2021 - Market Watch | Federal Election | Inventing Japan
- July 29, 2021 - Market Watch | Talking to Strangers | Five Investing Powers
- June 24, 2021 - Market Watch | The Black Swan I Network
- May 27, 2021 - Market Watch | Things I've Learned | Fooled By Randomness
- April 29, 2021 - Market Watch | Enlightened Entrepreneur | High Standards
- March 25, 2021 - Market Watch | Enlightened Entrepreneur | Memoirs and Misinformation
- February 25, 2021 - Market Watch | Tax Season | Thinking and Decision-Making
- January 28, 2021 - Market Watch | RRSPs | Personal Growth
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- December 23, 2020 - Market Watch | Thoughts on History | Happy Holidays!
- November 26, 2020 - Market Watch | New Blogs | Absolute Sandman
- October 29, 2020 - Market Watch | The Enlightened Entrepreneur | Lives of Stoics
- September 24, 2020 - Market Watch | U.S. Elections | A Focus on China
- August 27, 2020 - Market Watch | U.S. Elections | Americans Gods
- July 30, 2020 - Market Watch | The Educated Imagination | Secret Lives of Fungi
- June 25, 2020 - Market Watch | Understanding Comics | The Playing Field
- May 29, 2020 - Market Watch | Absolute Sandman | Unbuttoned
- April 30, 2020 - Market Watch | The Swerve | What's Next?
- April 17, 2020 - Special Note: Economic Update for April
- March 27, 2020 - Market Watch | Reflecting on the Times | The Power of Myth
- March 19, 2020 - Special Note: Economic Update during COVID-19
- February 27, 2020 - Market Watch | RRSP Deadline | Reflecting on Life
- January 30, 2020 - Market Watch | Personal Finance | Principles of Success
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- December 19, 2019 - Market Watch | Changing My Mind | Happy Holidays
- November 28, 2019 - Market Watch | A Favourite Part of My Job | Mythos
- October 31, 2019 - A Minority Government | Better Thinking | Silence in the Age of Noise
- September 26, 2019 - Market Watch | Deep Work | The Art of Storytelling
- August 29, 2019 - Market Watch | Trade War | How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life
- July 25, 2019 - Market Watch | How Asia Works | Measuring Global Happiness
- July 11, 2019 - Market Watch | The Power of Moments | Saying Goodbye to Kawhi
- June 27, 2019 - Market Watch | All My Puny Sorrows | Your Daily Hoot
- June 13, 2019 - Market Watch | Our Genes | Summer Travelling
- May 30, 2019 - Market Watch | Miyamoto Musashi | Professional Tag
- May 17, 2019 - U.S, China Trade War | Modern Monetary Theory | Pancho Billa
- May 2, 2019 - Market Watch | Mental Models | Spoiler Alert
- April 18, 2019 - Market Watch | In Defense of a Liberal Education | Notre-Dame Cathedral
- April 4, 2019 - Market Watch | Atomic Habits | Pillar Goes West
- March 21, 2019 - Federal Budget 2019 | 12 Rules for Life | A Collection of Life-Advice Resources
- March 7, 2019 - Market Watch | Different Kinds of Smart | Making Connections
- February 21, 2019 - Market Watch | RRSP Deadline | Oscars 2019
- February 7, 2019 - Market Watch | RRSP Deadline | Super Bowl Ads
- January 24, 2019 - Market Watch | TFSAs and RRSPs | Jack Bogle
- January 10, 2019 - Market Watch | Holiday Reading | New Year's Resolutions
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- December 13, 2018 - Market Watch | Laws of Human Nature | Deadpool 2
- November 29, 2018 - Market Watch | Making Decisions | Twitter Stereotypes
- November 15, 2018 - The Price of Oil | The Long Game | Stan Lee
- November 1, 2018 - Market Watch | Win Bigly | Remembering Pittsburgh
- October 23, 2018 - Market Watch | Canadian Market Weakness | How to Feel Like Superman
- October 4, 2018 - Market Watch | We Have A Deal | Mastery
- September 20, 2018 - NAFTA | Superforecasting | Wahlberg vs. Reynolds
- September 6, 2018 - School's In Session
- August 24, 2018 - Market Instability | The Golden House | A Big Hit From A New Jay
- August 9, 2018 - Status Seeking | Market Watch | Elephant in the Brain
- July 26, 2018 - Market Watch | Daily Physics | #DanforthStrong
- July 12, 2018 - TSX on the Rise | On Writing | Thai Cave Rescue
- June 28, 2018 - Trade Wars | Gender Differences | World Cup Fever
- June 15, 2018 - NAFTA | Ontario Votes | In Memory Of
- May 31, 2018 - Steel Tariffs | On Dialogue | Munk Debates
- May 17, 2018 - The Price of Oil | Choosing a Career | Mr. Rogers
- May 3, 2018 - Economic News | Evolution | #TorontoStrong
- April 19, 2018 - Economic News | Oil and Gold | First Principles
- April 5, 2018 - The Markets | Purpose of Life | Baloney Detection Kit
- March 22, 2018 - The Markets | Evolution of Everything | Born a Crime
- March 8, 2018 - Budget 2018 | Trade Wars | Football
- February 22, 2018 - The Markets | Improving your questions | Winter Olympics
- February 8, 2018 - The Markets | RRSPs | SuperBowl Commercials
- January 25, 2018 - Personal Debt | TFSAs | Writing Well
- January 11, 2018 - New Year | Artificial Intelligence | Bombogenesis
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- December 21, 2017 - A Holiday Theme...of sorts
- December 7, 2017 - Markets | Sapiens | Time Person of the Year
- November 23, 2017 - Market Update | Honeymoon Wrap | Black Friday
- November 9, 2017 - Market Update | Honeymoon Tracker | Roy Halladay
- October 26, 2017 - Market Update | Corporate Taxes | Honeymoon Alert!
- October 12, 2017 - Canadian Housing | Maximizing Focus | Vegas Victims and Tom Petty
- September 28, 2017 - Market Update | Small Business Taxes | Damn Right!
- September 14, 2017 - Market Update | Personal Finances | Hurricane Irma
- August 17, 2017 - Canadian Housing | The Markets | Bayes for Days
- August 3, 2017 - Market Update | Mental Models | Summer Travelling
- July 20, 2017 - Categorize Your Goals | Market Update | Baby Elephant
- July 6, 2017 - The Markets | Debt-to-Income | Canada 150
- June 22, 2017 - Systemizing Your Life | Market Update | Summer Has Arrived
- June 8, 2017 - The Big Picture
- May 25, 2017 - Trump and the Global Markets
- May 11, 2017 - Your Ticket to Freedom
- April 27, 2017 - A Third of a Year in Review
- April 13, 2017 - Reading the Numbers
- March 30, 2017 - Federal Budget | Government Debt | Freedom
- March 16, 2017 - Microenvironments | Peer Groups | Revisiting Gaiman
- March 2, 2017 - Evolution | Market Performance | That Oscars Mishap
- February 16, 2017 - High Water Marks | RRSPs | Remembering Hans Rosling
- February 2, 2017 - The U.S. Administration | Global Markets | TFSAs
- January 19, 2017 - Inauguration Day | Emerging Markets | The Third Chimpanzee
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- December 15, 2016 - India's Plan | TFSAs | Holiday Reading
- December 1, 2016 - New perspectives | Rise in Agriculture | Reading List
- November 17, 2016 - Election Hangover | Fixed Income | Real Estate
- November 4, 2016 - Travelling | The Looming Election | Gold
- October 20, 2016 - Emerging Markets | Fee-based Advisors | A Requiem for the Jays
- October 6, 2016 - OPEC | The Debates | Books to make you smarter
- September 22, 2016 - Markets return | Trump | Housing markets
- September 8, 2016 - Summer is over | How to legally own another person | Is financial ed as important as sex ed?
- August 25, 2016 - Traveling for life | Saying goodbye to The Hip
- August 11, 2016 - Market Highs | Travel and Money | Road to Rio 2016
- July 28, 2016 - Market bounce | Life-time travelling | A drone air show
- July 14, 2016 - Brexit Aftermath / Reflections on 2016 / Pokémon Go
- June 30, 2016 - Much Ado About Brexit
- June 16, 2016 - New perspectives | Rise in Agriculture | Reading List
- May 19, 2016 - Making Decisions in an Unpredictable World
- May 5, 2016 - Evolution of Money | Bitcoin | Obama Out
- April 21, 2016 - Emerging Markets | Resilience | Sleep bonuses
- April 7, 2016 - Panama Papers | Taxes | The Black Swan
- March 24, 2016 - Brussels | Budget 2016 | Kawhi Leonard
- March 10, 2016 - Emerging markets | Gold predictability | Trump
- February 25, 2016 - Gold | RRSP deadline | New reads
- February 11, 2016 - Investing biases | RRSPs | Super Bowl mayhem
- January 28, 2016 - Market volatility | Investing Biases | Cashless Society
- January 14, 2016 - Market volatility | Black swans| Lessons on happiness
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- December 23, 2015 - The year in review | Thinking, Fast and Slow | Family
- December 4, 2015 - Canada's recession | Consumer Delinquency | Thoughts from Dubai
- November 19, 2015 - Paris attacks | Holiday spending | Financial planning
- November 5, 2015 - Energy and oil prices | Falling loonie | Psychology of investing