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Submitted by Joseph Calhoun via Alhambra Investment Partners,

Canada has joined the “bail-in” posse.

Canada will introduce legislation to implement a "bail-in" regime for systemically important banks that would shift some of the responsibility for propping up failing institutions to creditors.

The proposed plan outlined in the federal budget released on Tuesday would allow authorities to convert eligible long-term debt of a failing lender into common shares in order to recapitalize the bank, allowing it to remain operating.

Source: CNBC

“Housing in Vancouver is insane — it was insane when I left and it’s more insane now.”

That’s from 33-year-old Kevin Oke, co-founder of LlamaZoo Interactive who left Vancouver for Victoria two years ago because he couldn’t afford to buy a home in his native city even while earning a generous salary as a lead designer at a video-game company whose clients included Atari and Ubisoft Entertainment SA.  

Yesterday we presented the latest note from UBS' technical analysts, Michael Riesner and Marc Muller, who said now that the S&P had hit their near-term top target of 2,050, it was time to "sell" the "most overbought market since 2009." We suggested that, based on their recent accurate track record, that it would be prudent to follow their advice instead of Gartmaning it. So far they have been correct.

Authored by John Mauldin of MauldinEconomics.com,

Dear Donald and Hillary:

In around ten months, one of you will wake up as Mr. or Mrs. President. After the fabulous fun of post-inaugural balls, you will walk into the Oval Office on Saturday, January 22 and launch into your first 90 days in office.

During these days, you will want to deliver on as many of your promises as possible. But instead of shadowboxing with hypothetical futures on a debate stage, you’re going to be up against cold, hard reality.