Top 10 best-selling cars: Cheaper in Canada or U.S.?

Do you Canadians remember this time last year?  Our dollar was flying high, and our people were demanding that cards, books, etc. be priced the same as in the US.  And new cars .... many Canadians drove...

Oil Prices tumble below $143

After continuously increasing for many weeks now fuel prices for the first time prices have fallen down. Stronger dollar is also helping in reducing the crude price. dollar has appreciated against major...

The Golden Collapse

Here's an article from Reason Magazine written by Matt Welch. It's about what happened after the tech crash that happened at the turn of the millenium."Despite the considerable hit that the wave of tech publication closures had on the pocketbooks of freelancers like me, it...

Celebrating 10 years of the euro?

"When the euro was launched there were plenty of people who thought it would crash and burn.Ten years on, its role as a global currency is secure, even if it hasn't achieved everything its founders hoped.Wednesday...

Dollah dollah coin, y'all: Loonie hits record high

Perhaps a trip south is in order for us Canuckleheads: the Canadian dollar has hit its highest point in thirty years. Something interesting (though I suppose obvious) I learned from this article is that the CAN$...

Ben Franklin Gets High-Tech Makeover in New $100 Bill

"WASHINGTON — After six decades in which the venerable greenback never changed its look, the U.S. currency has undergone a slew of makeovers. The most amazing is yet to come. A new security thread has been...

$3.6b of maturing bonds threaten kiwi

New Zealand exporters are happy to see the dollar drift down fast. Importers and many consumers like to see it stay strong. The kiwi dollar has already lost around 8 cents of its value over the last 20 days, and...

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