Description: The United States has received severe negative press the last several years regarding its massive U.S. federal government debt, currently estimated as of April 2007 at about $8.9 trillion. This article looks at the U.S. debt relative to other countries and also explores the impact on U.S. investments.

Description: Table from an article in The Actuary Magazine entitled "Putting the U.S. Debt into Proper Perspective".

Description: Table from an artice in The Actuary Magazine on "Putting the U.S. Debt into Proper Perspective".

Description: Table from an article in The Actuary Magazine on "Putting the U.S. Debt into Proper Prospective:.

Description: Full version of Risks and Rewards Newsletter, April 2000, Issue No. 34.

Description: The article explores several major historical conflicts in the region and identifies the impact these conflicts had on various asset classes, for both Canada and the U.S., and provides some strategies for risk management and for responding to opportunities.

Description: Describes how the mantra of 'tax cuts will pay for themselves" along with the political unwillingness to cut spending (extant since the 1980s), has led to this increasing debt problem in the U.S., reaching $17 trillion at time of writing. Other countries are behaving in a similar fashion, and it can be only a matter of time before the globe may reach another crisis, this time based on excessive government debt coupled with fewer interested investors.

Description: Full version of Risks and Rewards Newsletter, August 2006, Issue No. 48.

Description: This articles explores the notion of whether the old rules and paradigms of investment strategy and caution may no longer be applicable in today’s financial environment, because things were “different this time.”

Description: Full version of Risks and Rewards Newsletter, February 2002, Issue No. 38.