"What does 'economic winter' actually mean?" 🧵
What does 'economic winter' actually mean? 🧵👇
It's not just a recession - it's a complete RESET of the economic system.
Think 1930s-1940s level transformation, not 2008 financial crisis ❄️
Jul 4 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
🧵Toronto Real Estate Bubble: 🚨
Part 1
A Comprehensive Analysis Through Economic Cycle Theory 🏠📊
The Magnitude of the Crisis 💸
The Toronto housing market has reached unprecedented levels of unaffordability, with the price-to-median after-tax income ratio at 17.8 times.
This represents a catastrophic departure from historical norms of 3-5 times income, creating what economists would classify as a severe asset bubble 📈
The underlying mathematics is staggering: between 1976 and 2022, real home prices increased by 512% while real incomes grew by only 15%.
This 34:1 ratio of price growth to income growth represents one of the most extreme housing affordability crises in developed world history.
Jun 26 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Toronto Housing vs Gold: The Shocking Truth 🧵
🏠💰 THREAD:
I analyzed 20 years of CREA MLS data and what I found will blow your mind...
Toronto home prices in GOLD reveal the biggest monetary illusion of our time.
The Numbers:📊 2005: $335k = 558 oz of gold
📊 2022 PEAK: $1.27M = 267 oz of gold
📊 2025: $1M = 217 oz of gold
That's a 61% COLLAPSE in real purchasing power!
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Toronto Real Estate Prices in Gold 👇
Jun 9 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
Thread 1/15 🧵
The Great Canadian Reset is coming.
Three of history's most powerful economic cycles are converging on our $2.6 trillion housing market. This isn't just another correction—it's a complete system rewrite.
Here's what you need to know 👇
2/15 📊
Ray Dalio's new "Big Debt Cycle" study reads like a roadmap for Canada today.
We're 80 years into a debt supercycle that always ends the same way: with a massive deleveraging.
Our household debt is 180% of our income.
We're in the danger zone.
May 23 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Will Canada have a Sovereign Debt Crisis Reality Check
1/8 🧵
This chart shows what a sovereign debt crisis looks like 📊
Greece's borrowing costs went from 3.5% → 65% in just 2.5 years 📈💥