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Dreaming of Recession

Well, here’s something rather unusual… Appearing earlier today on BBC, Alessio Rastani, an independent stock trader, confessed to a stunned interviewer that, like most of his colleagues on Wall Street…

Pigs & Sheep

To mark today’s re-issue of Pink Floyd’s catalog (apparently following a complex legal argument over distribution rights), EMI Music reconstructed the iconic cover of the band’s 1977 “Animals”album with an…

Adopt a “Job Creator”

America’s bonus dependent job creators are currently suffering marginal percentage losses against staggering aggregate wealth. Won’t you please help the affluently burdened? For the struggling over-endowed, your donation can make…

GOP Google/Fox Debate

For those who didn’t watch the “debate” last night on TV or participate online, TPM provides a one minute highlight reel of instantly forgettable soundbites: Aside from the unremitting craziness…

Criminal Injustice

Conrad Black speaking earlier this month to Allan Gregg, just days before the putative Lord of Crossharbour headed back to a Florida prison to serve the remainder of his sentence…

Going Rogue?

Matt Taibbi talks to David Shushter about the latest banking scandal. Swiss financial services company UBS has admitted that a “rogue” trader has run up a loss of $2 billion…

Negative Ad Time

Manitoba is one of the five provinces having elections this fall, so along with many folks across the country, we here in “The Keystone Province” (yes, that’s actually its official…

Tea Party Republican Debate

Hey, there’s another thrilling GOP “debate” taking place tonight in Tampa, Florida. This one is billed as the “Tea Party Republican Debate”… whatever that means. Presumably, the candidates will have…

Memorial Plaza

An architectural look at the heart of the Ground Zero redevelopment project. Seems altogether excessive when compared to past memorials to the dead, but perhaps that’s not altogether surprising if…

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