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May 18, 2021 | Moister Madness Garth Turner A best-selling Canadian author of 14 books on economic trends, real estate, the financial crisis, personal finance strategies, taxation and politics. Nationally-known speaker and lecturer on macroeconomics, the housing market and investment techniques. He is a licensed Investment Advisor with a fee-based, no-commission Toronto-based practice serving clients across Canada. Turns out that April was an better month than March to buy property. May is even moreso. June and July could be worse. And the last thing you ever want, we’re told, is to in a b...

Long Bets is a philanthropic website built with funds from Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos. Anyone can post a prediction and a challenge the winner donates the money to charity. Lord Rees, the prominent British astronomer, placed a bet in 2017 that “bioterror or bioerror will lead to one million casualties in a single event within a six-month period starting no later than December 31, 2020.” His friend and Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker took up the wager and lost. All bets are off as the pandemic cuts widening fatal swathe in India because of no trials and many errors. In a podcast, Nia...

Published Tuesday, April 20, 2021 2:46PM EDT Last Updated Tuesday, April 20, 2021 3:59PM EDT A group of scientists advising the Ford government says that Ontario “needs stronger measures to control the pandemic” but it is stressing that any policies that discourage safe outdoor activity “will not control COVID-19 and will disproportionately harm children and those who do not have access to their own greenspace.” The Ford government ordered the closure of a long list of recreational amenities on Friday but reversed course one day later and made an exce...

Posted on 506 dunnhumby, the global leader in customer data science, today released findings from the sixth wave of its Consumer Pulse Survey, a study of the impact of Covid-19 on customer behavior and attitudes across 21 countries. The dunnhumby Consumer Pulse Survey found that U.S. consumers plan on spending 25% less on food and 36% less on gifts this year, compared to 2019. Ten percent reported they would not be buying any gifts. This pullback in spending is occurring at the same time as consumers are increasingly worried about ...

One-third of holiday grocery shopping to take place online, dunnhumby projects With concern about coronavirus pandemic rising, U.S. consumers plan to spend 25% less on food and 36% less on gifts this holiday shopping season versus a year ago, according to customer data specialist dunnhumby. In the sixth wave of its Consumer Pulse Survey, a study of the impact of COVID-19 on consumer behavior and attitudes across 21 countries, dunnhumby found that Americans are at their highest level of worry about the virus since the crisis began. The dunnhumby Worry Index — a measure of how consumer ...