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Danielle Park

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Portfolio Manager and President of Venable Park Investment Counsel (www.venablepark.com) Ms Park is a financial analyst, attorney, finance author and regular guest on North American media. She is also the author of the best-selling myth-busting book "Juggling Dynamite: An insider's wisdom on money management, markets and wealth that lasts," and a popular daily financial blog: www.jugglingdynamite.com

Juggling Dynamite - Vanguard founder and ETF pioneer, Jack Bogle, warned that if index funds came to own half of the U.S. stock market, it could lead to significant issues, like too much influence concentrated in just a few institutional owners, which he believed would be “a problem” for corporate governance and overall market function. According to the […]

Juggling Dynamite - Toronto-area home sale prices dropped by 5.4% annually in June–the fifth consecutive year-over-year decline. While lethargy is glaring in condos, detached home sale prices fell the most, with a 6.5% year-over-year drop. The average Toronto June sale price of $1.01 million represented a 17% decline from the February 2022 peak of $1.21 million. Sales for […]

July 3rd, 2025 | Recession is Here?

Juggling Dynamite - David Rosenberg, founder and president of Rosenberg Research, believes recession odds are higher than 2022 despite nobody expecting one, pointing to Fed staff forecasting 50% recession probability and the most downbeat Beige Book since 1980. Rosenberg criticizes Powell for calling the economy “solid” while real GDP has been negative sequentially in 2 of the past […]

Juggling Dynamite - Leland Miller, China Beige Book CEO, joins ‘Squawk Box’ to discuss the state of China’s economy, impact of U.S.-China trade negotiations, how much leverage the country has over the U.S., and more. Here is a direct video link.

June 30th, 2025 | Opportunity for Canada

Juggling Dynamite - Canada needs to build things the world wants. A Canadian car company is rolling in a zero-emission vehicle called ‘Project Arrow’. CTV’s Sean Leathong reports. Here is a direct video link.    Also, see Donald Trump’s disdain for wind energy could create windfall for Nova Scotia: experts: New England states and New York have been leading development […]

Juggling Dynamite - Many people believe that “rich people always have money.” What is typically overlooked is that people with higher incomes tend to have higher overhead and debt levels, and any savings they have are often invested in risky asset markets. This magnifies vulnerability to downturns in the economy, income, and stock market, eventually intensifying liquidation cycles. […]

Juggling Dynamite - Stock bulls cite prices back near all-time highs as a self-fulfilling prophecy for financial resiliency. After rebounding 22% since the April 8 lows, the S&P 500 is now +3.5% year to date and .90% below its February high. Another way to say this is that large-cap stocks have returned to extreme capital risk and overvaluation […]

Juggling Dynamite - In a sign of financial stress, an increasing number of homeowners are withdrawing equity from their homes for cash to pay down other high-interest consumer loans and credit cards. Debt consolidation is cited as the top reason for people taking out Home Equity Lines of Credit. See, Should you use your home equity to pay off […]

Juggling Dynamite - This is the right idea…reduce waste, reuse, recycle. Ahmad Ghahreman, CEO of Cyclic Materials, discusses the plans to build a recycling plant in Ontario and the development of rare earth minerals in Canada. Here is a direct video link.

Juggling Dynamite - The harsh math of recreational properties… costly consumption spending. ” Is it serving you and your family, or your ego?” Cottages were once a dream… but in 2025, they’re a financial nightmare. The harsh truth behind Canada’s cottage collapse. While prices are falling, affordability is still out of reach for many. A shocking 57% of […]

Juggling Dynamite - CBC News Network’s Weekend Business Panel takes on top stories of the week. Here is a direct video link.    

Juggling Dynamite - Interest-rate suppression experiments of central banks dominated the world from 2008 to 2022, incentivizing the misallocation of $trillions of resources, record debt, and uneconomical asset prices. Real estate — the most widely owned and leveraged asset in the world — is one of the most glaring and consequential hangovers, with many areas now drowning in […]

Juggling Dynamite - All the hype about cryptocurrencies being more secure than conventional currencies and banks. How safe, secure and practical does all of this sound? See, ‘Bitcoin Family’ hides crypto codes etched onto metal cards on four continents after recent kidnappings: The family’s new system involves splitting a single 24-word bitcoin seed phrase — the cryptographic key that […]

Juggling Dynamite - The World Bank sharply cut its global economic growth forecast. It now projects the global economy to expand by 2.3% in 2025, down from an earlier forecast of 2.7% (below, courtesy of Bloomberg). This would mark the slowest rate of global growth, outside of a recession, since 2008. Growth is expected to recover modestly to […]

June 10th, 2025 | Wise To Be Wary

Juggling Dynamite - Worried about tariff-inspired inflation, the US Federal Reserve has held its overnight target rate steady at 4.25 to 4.5% since December, and markets have walked back easing expectations to just two 25 basis point cuts by year-end. At the same time, businesses are warning that constantly shifting trade policies are hindering their ability to plan […]

Juggling Dynamite - Canada’s unemployment rate has climbed to 7% from 6.2% a year ago, and up 210 basis points from 4.9% in June 2022 (chart below via The DailyShot). Excluding the pandemic, this is the highest unemployment rate since 2016 (Statscan report here). A 180-basis-point increase in the jobless rate over two years has historically been a […]

Juggling Dynamite - Since June 2024, interest rates have trended down from a two-decade high, yet remain above the historically low levels seen during the pandemic. Approximately 1.2 million Canadian mortgages will renew in 2025, a vast majority (85%) of which were secured when the Bank of Canada’s key lending rate was at or below 1% compared with […]

June 5th, 2025 | Job Losses Leaping

Juggling Dynamite - Slowly, then all at once…job losses ‘unexpectedly’ leaping across many sectors. Andy Challenger, Senior Vice President, Challenger, Gray & Christmas, shares his insights on the latest Challenger layoff report in the U.S. and what sectors were most impacted.  Here is a direct video link. 

June 4th, 2025 | Dark Factories

Juggling Dynamite - The idea that re-shoring manufacturing will increase good-paying jobs in North America faces some challenges from automation. Corporations focus on profit margins, so where machines are more efficient than human labour, automation will win out. Factories have been transformed by automation, with robots now taking on a sizeable proportion of jobs once done by people […]

Juggling Dynamite - China’s Caixin purchasing managers’ index unexpectedly fell in May to 48.3 (sub-50 signals contraction) as US tariffs took a toll on smaller exporters. The consensus had expected the gauge to improve, not worsen. At the same time, US manufacturing activity contracted further in May to the lowest level since November. The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) purchasing managers’ index […]

Juggling Dynamite - It’s an especially confusing time for investors. On one hand, the US economy is showing signs of slowing, with a negative growth for Q1 GDP, and mounting evidence that many corporations and consumer households are feeling the pinch of higher borrowing costs. On the other hand, FOMO Is returning to the stock market as corporate […]

May 30th, 2025 | DOGE Disappoints

Juggling Dynamite - As I feared, DOGE has drastically undershot its targeted spending cuts. It’s hard to reduce overhead without the political will to reduce corporate subsidies and reform entitlement programs in a meaningful way. At the same time, the masses want tax cuts. The math is not mathing. Elon Musk is done with the Department of Government […]

Juggling Dynamite - Today, we received further confirmation of Canada’s deteriorating labour market, with March payrolls falling 54,100 to a 10-month low, and a negatively revised 40,200 fewer jobs in February (Stats Can survey of employers, payrolls, and hours). Canada’s largest lender, Royal Bank, also disappointed with an earnings miss after setting aside $1.42 billion for loan losses […]

Juggling Dynamite - Denmark raised its retirement age last week to 70 for Danes born in 1971 or later. Workers currently become eligible for the Danish equivalent of Social Security at age 67, which will go up steadily in the coming years. See: The New Retirement Age in Denmark is 70: This is the result of a reform passed […]

Juggling Dynamite - During the pandemic, near-zero interest rates and government subsidies enabled excess consumption beyond sustainable means. That inflated the prices of most goods and assets while exacerbating wealth gaps between the old and young, as well as between the top ten percent and the rest. We are now in a mean reversion phase, and the downward […]
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