By the time I did my first real estate development at twenty-one, I genuinely wasn’t learning real estate. I was applying everything those doorsteps had already taught me. Show up. Do the work. Respect the person across the table. Outlast the rejection. Stay hungry after the win. Take the long view. Every one of those …
I Sold Diaries Door to Door at Twelve. It Taught Me More Than Any Deal Since. I sold my first product when I was twelve years old, pocket diaries, door to door, so I could buy myself a suit. Four decades and a few billion dollars of real estate later, that twelve-year-old still teaches me …
Most headlines focus on uncertainty. But uncertainty isn’t the story. The story is that markets are adapting faster than many expected. When former President Donald Trump recently joked, “I love the inflation,” the remark grabbed attention. Yet beneath the politics and headlines, something much more important is happening: the numbers are showing an economy that is …
Everywhere you look, the headlines are filled with reasons to be concerned. • Inflation• Interest rates• Trade tensions• Market volatility Yet I believe many people are focused on the wrong story. Beneath all the noise, something extraordinary is happening across North America. Businesses are not just surviving. They are reinventing themselves. And AI is accelerating that transformation. Not the AI …
Everyone is talking about smarter AI. Almost nobody is talking about the technology that will make the next generation of AI possible. The biggest challenge facing AI isn’t computing power anymore. It’s moving enormous amounts of data fast enough, efficiently enough, and without overwhelming the world’s energy infrastructure. According to the International Energy Agency, global …
Five years later, the rent resets that saved tenants are now constraining landlords — and there is no fast way out When the pandemic shut down retail Canada in the spring of 2020, commercial landlords faced a choice that felt simple at the time: renegotiate leases downward, absorb the pain, keep tenants in place, and …
Washington Is Driving the USMCA Crisis – and Canada’s Response Is Already Reshaping the Real Estate Market The United States is deliberately driving the USMCA renegotiation – and Canada’s response to that pressure has triggered a second major trade story that most real estate operators on both sides of the border are missing entirely. Richard …
China’s rapid expansion in artificial intelligence is not accidental – it is a deliberate national strategy tied directly to economic security, industrial competitiveness, and long-term technological independence. Over the past few years, China has made AI one of its core strategic priorities, with projected AI capital spending reaching roughly $600-700B yuan (around $85-100B USD) in …
A fact-based and forward-looking view of the most important technological competition today. When people are asked who is leading in artificial intelligence, answers tend to reflect geography. In the United States, the common view is that American companies are ahead. In China, the opposite belief is often held. Both perspectives contain elements of truth, but neither …
For years, the conversation around artificial intelligence was dominated by Silicon Valley. That is no longer the case. China is now investing in AI at a national, industrial, and geopolitical scale that the Western world cannot afford to underestimate. This is not simply venture capital enthusiasm or a startup boom. China is treating AI as core …