9.5 % decline since start of 2010.
Off-balance sheet liabilities almost triple what is reported on bond markets.
Office vacancy rate tops 17 per cent.
Paper shows "plodding" Canadians late to the bubble game.
More managers bullish on U.S. equities.
Angry Bear blogger looks at Europe versus the U.S.
Corporate pension funds pulling out the risk game.
EU countries face monster task when it comes to pension obligations.
So huge is the debt load that they’ll need to save 8% of their income for six years just to get down to the 1999 level of 65% (still a record high).
Obama recently announced that among other things, the US government was planning to prevent banks from engaging in any non-banking activities such as proprietary trading.