The book is co-written by David Cork, investment adviser with ScotiaMcLeod in Ottawa, and Susan Lightstone, associate editor of This Country Magazine, and is an attempt to cash in on the recent spate ...

The "pig," in this case, represents inflation and its tentacles into the global economy. The "python" is the domestic economy.

As shown, the “pig in the python” effect is evident. Over the next two years, that “bulge” of excess liquidity will revert to the previous growth trend.

Dychtwald, who is 56, likens the boomer timeline to that of a pig passing through a python, an unpleasant but probably accurate metaphor. Boomers are slowly being digested by the world they ...

You’ve got to go back a few generations to locate the origins of the phrase “the pig through the python,” but it comes to mind as we see economic machinations dampen our near-term rally on market ...