The year old tax is now being subjected to a vote. Even though Stephen Harper help get some provinces on with the tax I fully support the HST. It helps companies as it eliminates the possibility of a product being taxed multiple times before being taxe…
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Accidental Deliberations: On warning signs
Shorter Jim Flaherty:Of course economic trouble elsewhere in the world will have negative consequences for Canada. But we won’t let that stop us from pushing the same bad advice that’s done so much to cause it.
Continue readingHellberta: A conflict over ethical oil
By now anyone who follows energy, economics, or the environment has probably heard the term “ethical oil”. If you are not familiar with it; it was coined by Ezra Levant in his book Ethical Oil: The Case for Canada’s Oil Sands. It also coined a lesser known term “conflict oil”.
Continue readingbastard.logic: Another Stop Along the Road to Damascus
by matttbastard The pullquote from one of David Frum’s latest eviscerations of contemporary USian conservative folly, a meditative riff on Susan Sontag’s infamous “Were our enemies right?” speech, was making the rounds yesterday (eventually getting linked by the subject of Frum’s … Continue reading →
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- No, we shouldn’t be surprised that Clark-era PCs disagree with the Harper Cons given that their leader long since jumped ship as well. But Peter Blaikie’s take on the Cons’ dumb-on-crime policies is still worth…
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": Yup
Turmell is much more fun than that boring old economy.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Juxtaposition
Kenneth Rogoff describes the type of policy needed to push developed economies out of their current slump:too many policy-makers have relied on the belief that, at the end of the day, this is just a deep recession that can be subdued by a generous help…
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Market Craps on Debt Ceiling Deal
Funny that shortly after the U.S. Congress passed the largest – and arguably most catastrophically stupid – deficit reduction package in history, the market promptly reacted by taking a nosedive. Apparently, the ugly, job-killing “compromise” hastily cobbled together by U.S. … Continue reading →
Continue readingArt Threat: Nude Wall Street performance art ends in arrests, charges
Three artists were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct Monday for participating in a site-specific performance designed to protest US and international financial institutions.
Continue readingTrashy's World: The so-called “bipartisan” agreement in the U.S…
… is only putting off the inevitable unless something more substantive can be done to alleviate the unfathomable levels of American debt. Americans are going to have to pay now – because the price to pay later will bring their proud nation to its knees. Usually, The Onion is a work of satire. Usually. But […]
Continue readingTrashy's World: Quebec or Bosnia : who has safer public infrastructure?
Honestly, after reading this, I think I’d take Bosnia over one of the Montreal bridges, overpasses or tunnels… What a shame. And disgrace. But look y’all, before we in the RoC start feeling all smug-like, start looking at the condition of some of the streets etc. in your neck of the woods. Many of us […]
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your long weekend.- I’ll agree with pogge that Tabatha Southey’s latest is well worth a read. But while it’s worth recognizing the differences between the respective priorities involved in managing a country as opposed to a f…
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: QOTD
Tabatha Southey’s column today addresses the claim that we should run a country as if it was a household. A country’s debt can, in complete fairness, be passed along to its children, because that is exactly what happens to a country’s assets. An educated population, for example, is an asset to a country in a vast number of ways: Educated people earn more, so they pay more taxes. They tend to get sick less and go to prison less often and so they cost the state less money and, as study after study has shown, educated parents tend to raise educated children, and so education is a very solid long-term investment for a nation to make. Every time a politician makes the seemingly sensible point that everyone makes sacrifices to live within their means and therefore so must governments (as politicians from Washington to Toronto have done this week), someone needs to point out that if individuals choose to sacrifice going to university, it would be mostly a bad choice. You can make similar arguments about other kinds of investments. A government that spends money during a recession to rebuild decaying infrastructure not only creates jobs today, providing an immediate…
Continue readingWorld Headlines Review: Debt Ceiling Debate is Moot: USG Owes More Dollars than in Existence
Image by Images_of_Money The current debate in Washington as to whether or not and under what conditions to raise the debt-ceiling has for the past week dominated global news coverage and the public mind. Absent from the debate and mainstream coverage is a discussion of the debt limit in the
Continue readingHellberta: The next Alberta economic boom will be funded by faith
Good day to you Albertans. I haven’t written on this blog for quite awhile, in fact I wasn’t even sure if I was ever going to blog again. Things are moving too fast now to really spend any significant time on a particular subject however I feel Alberta’s economy needs
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Andrew Jackson attacks the myth of expansionary austerity, particularly from a Canadian perspective:(T)here is very rarely any such thing as expansionary austerity, according to IMF staff economists.In a carefu…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, on how new evidence on the effects of poverty and inequality gives us all the more reason to fight them.For further reading…- Of course, the Equality Trust is the for more about the effects of inequality. – And for some of the new research on t…
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: The Platinum Debt Solution
While in all probability America’s so-called “debt ceiling” will be raised next week – just as it routinely has been for the last 74 times since 1962 – the utterly dysfunctional political dynamic in Washington in Washington has turned what … Continue reading →
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- In case anybody held out hope that the Harper Cons might follow up on their residential school apology with some concrete action to change First Nations relations for the better, here’s the predictable result: a…
Continue readingOn the Green Party platform.
Finally — for now, at least, until the Tories and NDP release the rest of their platforms, and the Libs release anything at all — I’m going to take a quick look at the Green Party of Ontario’s platform. It’s the shortest, and the slimmest when it com…
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