Summer of Discontent

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August 15th., 2011
Volume 10, Issue 10

Dear Friends and Partners,

If you're watching your stocks go further and further down... you may dub this the 'Summer of Discontent'. Unless you are very good at shorting stocks, have bars of gold and silver or cash-flowing real estate, you are feeling it. But, that is nothing new. I think since returning to Canada I am much more aware of the nonstop bombardment of negative media. Does this help me be a better investor? Only when I turn it off!

Almost all of the news you need to know your friends or family will tell you. When you're studying and researching prior to making an investment, short term events (bad news) will play a role, especially if the 'problem' can sway the market and be solved in the near future. For the next three weeks I am going to read the smiles on my family's faces and listen to the laughter generated from having time away and in the outdoors. Enjoy your summer!

-Glenn Simon Inc. will be closed for summer holiday between August 24th and September 12th. Newsletters will resume September 15th.-

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Calgary Leading Charge In Carbon Capture

Local firm involved in building Alberta's first carbon capture pipeline

By Chris Nelson, Calgary Herald. August 14th 2011

As much of North America baked under record-setting temperatures this summer, few people would have considered carbon dioxide a continental resource.

Mention CO2 to the majority of Canadians and the words "global warming" spring readily to mind.

Susan Cole's mind works differently. FOLLOW THIS ARTICLE

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No New Taxes Or Royalties, Most Tory Leadership Hopefuls Say

By Jason Fekete, Calgary Herald. August 13th, 2011

Most of the six candidates vying to replace Ed Stelmach as Tory leader and premier are pledging no new taxes and vow not to increase energy royalties from oil and gas development on Crown land. As the race heats up to the first Tory leadership vote on Sept. 17, would-be premiers are increasingly rolling out their visions for Alberta and how they would deal with a projected $3.4-billion deficit and rapidly evaporating rainy day savings account. READ MORE HERE

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Low Interest Rates Good For The Economy; Not So Much For Consumer Debt

Huffington Post, Canada. August 10th, 2011

With uncertainty once again dogging the world economy, it now seems unlikely that the run of cheap credit that has made it easier for consumers to spend big in the wake of the downturn will end anytime soon.

After the Dow Jones Industrial plummeted 634 points on Monday, its sharpest one-day decline since the dark days of late 2008, the United States Federal Reserve said in a statement Tuesday that it expects to hold “extremely low” interest rates, the key factor in determining borrowing costs, until at least mid-2013. FOLLOW THIS STORY



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More Rental Properties Being Built In Edmonton: CMHC

INews, August 9th 2011

Apartment construction is the bright spot this month on the Canada Housing Corporation housing starts report.

Rain has been making construction difficult, and dragging down numbers of single-family starts in Edmonton. But as CMHC's Richard Goatcher tells us, multiple-unit starts more than make up for it.

"Apartments were pretty much three times the number that we saw in July of last year," he says, "so that helped to lift the total numbers up by nine percent year-over-year."

But what if the economy takes a turn for the worse? GRAB THIS STORY

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Todd and Danielle Millar


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