Short Takes: Investing Questions, CRA Oral Interviews, and more

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Here are my posts for the past two weeks:

What Might Have Been

Seeking Prophets

Here are some short takes and some weekend reading:

Tom Bradley at Steadyhand asks some very interesting questions.  One good one is “Who is going to buy the flood of low yielding government bonds being issued?”  Another is “Is the political risk around China fully reflected in securities prices?”  I won’t be buying the new bonds, and I’m wary of investing in China.

Anna Malazhavaya explains that CRA can now compel oral interviews.  This is a change announced in the 2021 Federal Budget.  If I understood correctly, they can even compel people to answer questions about a neighbour.  I guess that’s another good reason to get along with your neighbours.

Big Cajun Man continues to have difficulties making contributions to his son’s RDSP.  It seems that TD is trying to apply rules that make sense for RRSPs to RDSPs where they don’t make sense.

Boomer and Echo looks at reasonable expectations for future market returns.  Some investors expect the high stock returns of recent years to keep rolling.  The party has to end sometime, and making moves to try to keep it going likely won’t end well.