Doing your homework on Ready to Move homes

Convenience is one of the main reasons for buying a Ready to Move (RTM) home. Buy your customized dream house or cottage, move it onto your dream property and live happily ever after. End of story, right? Often that eventually is exactly what happens. However, getting from point A, purchase to point B, living happily

FDIC Chair Warns Of Possible U. S. Farmland “Bubble”

U. S. farmland could be the next asset bubble at risk for bursting, a leading banking regulator said Oct. 18. Sheila Bair, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., said it was important to monitor U. S. farmland values for signs of instability like the price bubbles in the housing and stock markets that burst


Farmers Warned About Rising Interest Rates

The Bank of Montreal is telling Canada’s farmers to do a better job of managing their debt or risk instability from higher interest rates. BMO cites George Brinkman, an authority on farm viability, as warning about “an unsettling outlook” from high levels of farm debt made worse by rising interest rates over the next three

Recession Hurts Think-Tanks Too

The George Morris Centre had a rough financial year, mainly because its investment portfolio sank with the recession to a low of $2.2 million. But treasurer Bob Hunsberger reported that it’s on the mend, that revenues and expenses in the balanced budget for the current fiscal year were on target during the first quarter and


Rural U. S. Recession Deepening

A deepening U. S. recession is taking root in rural America, spilling across a sector that has largely lagged the suffering seen on Wall Street, according to an expert with the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. A drop in commodities prices and slowdown in the farm sector in the third quarter of 2008 expanded