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Where private auto insurance rates are rising the fastest in Canada

Ontario’s premium rates are rising the fastest among Canada’s private passenger auto insurance regimes, according to the Q2 2018 Auto Insurance Price Index from LowestRates.ca. A measure of only priva... read more

The end really is near: a play-by-play of the coming economic collapse

These are items like unemployment insurance and other transfer ... will hit very high levels since private debt is still over 150 percent of GDP and rising. This fall in credit demand in response to r... read more

Goldman Sachs Will Beat Out Fintechs To Champion The Consumer Lending Boom

Because they are private ... rate which could point to a turn in the credit cycle and huge losses for issuers of personal loans. We can see these signs already taking place in the auto industry where ... read more

Ten Years After the Crash, We Are Still Living in the World It Brutally Remade

American workers are enjoying a blissful 4 percent unemployment rate. The investment class and humble 401(k) holders alike are beneficiaries of a rising GDP and booming ... getting better but not gett... read more

In a Subprime Bubble for Used Cars, Borrowers Pay Sky-High Rates

And the dealers outline the terms and rates of the loans. In interviews, more than 40 low-income borrowers described how they were worn down by used car ... the private equity firms and large banks th... read more

Miami’s fight against rising seas

“But there’s both a public and a private ... on rising tides,” he says. Gandolfo ticks off some of the adaptation strategies that were used: building higher than the current flood plain; flood gates t... read more

'We expect high single digit returns from the market this year'

We see consumption (auto, fast moving consumer goods, etc), private sector ... like mutual funds, insurance, deposits, etc. That was a one time event and has created a high base. Since that is unlikel... read more

A Macro Case For Financials

They are well-positioned to benefit from the late-cycle, rising interest rate ... private sector as a % of GDP has been stable since the financial crisis (Chart 3). There are sub-sectors where the pic... read more

Striving to Be the Berkshire Hathaway of China

On Friday, the Shanghai-based Fosun announced that it had won the bidding for Portugal’s biggest insurance company with an offer of 1 billion euros, or $1.4 billion, beating out the American private . ... read more

Indian CEOs' breathtaking salaries

Add in punitive tax rates upwards of 90 per cent at one stage ... close to Rs 2 crore a year), top-end salaries have risen particularly fast in sectors like private equity, insurance, retail, investme... read more

The Cure for the $1,000 Toothbrush

But health insurance premiums are rising three times as fast as wages, doubling since 2002 ... facilities and providers who agree to deliver care at a negotiated discount rate. P.P.O.’s were not origi... read more