Tag: Economics
Larry Hubich's Blog: The "Other Saskatchewan" – CCPA
Reproduced below is a 2011 Saskatchewan Budget Response by Dr. Simon Enoch, CCPA Saskatchewan:
The “Other Saskatchewan”
A Budget Response by CCPA Saskatchewan
by Simon Enoch
March 24, 2011
If yesterday’s budget was designed to give somethin…
Continue readingLarry Hubich's Blog: Open letter to Premier Brad Wall – CPP Improvements
Today I sent the following “open letter” to Saskatchewan Premier, Brad Wall respecting proposed improvements to the Canada Pension Plan (CPP). It is self explanatory: (PDF version here)
March 18, 2011
Honourable Brad Wall
Premier of Saskatch…
Larry Hubich's Blog: Naomi Klein and Rachel Maddow: Michigan, Disaster Capitalism and Corporate Greed
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Continue readingHappy International Women’s Day!
Oh, the regina mom‘s been a busy woman this past year! Marketing a book takes time and energy in the planning and carrying out. Needless to say, this blog has fallen by the wayside. However, I could not miss the opportunity to wish my readers a happy International Women’s Day and to share a piece […]
Be Heard on March 3rd: No Stealth Fighters
Ceasefire.ca, the public arm of the Rideau Institute, in conjunction with rabble.ca has stated that March 3rd is the official day of action for all those who want to speak out against the purchase of Stealth Fighters by the Conservative Canadian go…
Continue readingThe Deficit Kings
When I read Brian Mulroney giving Harper advice to “do something big,” I laughed.
First I thought perhaps Mulroney meant taking in a $300,000 bribe, lying about it, and then successfully suing the Federal government for over $2 million due to allegat…
Continue readingEclecticLip: How Libertarians brought America big religion and bigger lawsuits…
(originally written Nov 2; posted Nov 16)
It looks like the Democrats are going to get clobbered in next week’s tomorrow’s today’s US elections. Economic malaise tends to do this to governing parties, which is one reason currency devaluation is the policy-du-jour: if country A can make its currency cheaper, it becomes more competitive and can […]
EclecticLip: Diminishing returns on increased complexity in financial markets…
My brother forwarded me this article in the Financial Times recently. Superficially about the fall of Rome and other civilizations, as chronicled by Joseph Tainter’s Collapse of Complex Societies, it links back to the fact that the complexity of the financial sector has increased far faster than the balance of the economy — the “real” […]
Continue readingOn cooperatives and housing.
I’ll get back to my electoral series eventually, I swear. But I had this weird idea today and I wanted to spell it out. It’s not an argument; more just thinking out loud. (Well, so to speak. “Speak”.)We don’t have enough housing going to the people who…
Continue readingOn the new feudalism.
I was going to blog something about the CMA’s recent report on Canadian healthcare. But there’s really not much there that anyone could reasonably disagree with. More access to prescription drugs, more access to long-term care for those who need it…
Continue readingWhat the hell do I know?
“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”Galileo Galilei You know sometimes I just have to stop and think and think hard because sometimes it seems quite unbelievable what is going on…Oh the Fif…
Continue readingDTK: Liberals Flunk Economics
Or so Zogby would have you believe. They did a poll where they made statements about “basic economic” issues and saw that the left-leaning people got the answers wrong. Now, you’re probably expecting these basic statements to be something very clear and non-controversial. Something like “Inflation is the gradual increase
Continue readingDTK: Liberals Flunk Economics
Or so Zogby would have you believe.They did a poll where they made statements about “basic economic” issues and saw that the left-leaning people got the answers wrong.Now, you’re probably expecting these basic statements to be something very clear and …
Continue readingDTK: Liberals Flunk Economics
Or so Zogby would have you believe. They did a poll where they made statements about “basic economic” issues and saw that the left-leaning people got the answers wrong. Now, you’re probably expecting these basic statements to be something very clear and non-controversial. Something like “Inflation is the gradual increase
Continue readingredjenny: First the Recession didn’t exist…
First the recession didn’t even exist (No recession for Canada, er.. well maybe a “technical” one), and now the recession is going away.yep, ok, uh-huh, sure, I believe you StevieAfter all, your finance minister has such a good track record
Continue readingredjenny: First the Recession didn’t exist…
First the recession didn’t even exist (No recession for Canada, er.. well maybe a “technical” one), and now the recession is going away. yep, ok, uh-huh, sure, I believe you StevieAfter all, your finance minister has such a good track record
Continue readingredjenny: First the Recession didn’t exist…
First the recession didn’t even exist (No recession for Canada, er.. well maybe a “technical” one), and now the recession is going away. yep, ok, uh-huh, sure, I believe you StevieAfter all, your finance minister has such a good track record
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