Tories $20 Million Auditors Are Serial Fraudsters
If you're the government and you want to find "gravy" - to pick a random metaphor - that you can eliminate in the provision of services in order to reduce…
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Parliament In Review: September 19, 2011
With the start of the fall session of Parliament I'll plan to resume taking a daily look at what happens in the House of Commons - with a particular focus…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Alex Himelfarb offers a warning about Canada's current inequality trap:In a society with just a few winners and many losers, a case can…
The similarities between debt crises and currency crises
During the nineties, the predominant form of economic crisis that could hit a nation was the currency crisis whereby the value of a countries currency drops precipitously. Most infamously was…
Toronto: Mayor Ford Retreat, Tory Vote Meltdown
Ah, I love the smell of self-inflicted Tory panic on a Monday morning. It seemed only a year ago that things were heading towards Tories at all levels of government.…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Gerald Caplan laments the difficulty in trying to comment reasonably on the actions of a government whose attitude toward reason ranges from overt hostility…
Civil War Looming In "Ford Nation" HQ
If I were a betting man, I would have slapped down a c-note that Ford's administration would go off the rails within two years. Even during the election it was…
European Revolt Against Austerity Picks Up Steam
Strikers in Italy resist austerity. It seems apparent that European politicians somehow missed out the economics class where they explain how massive cuts to public spending in the middle of…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. - Carol Goar asks whether the Harper Cons learned anything whatsoever from a recession which they first deemed impossible, then minimized before acting only…
Stand Up, Fight Back
Earlier this evening, I came across this slick video, USW The Fighting Spirit, put out by the Steelworkers that I can only describe as kickass. Hope you enjoy it.
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. - Heather Mallick highlights the dangers of the permanent unemployment which regressive politicians around the globe are so vociferously demanding in the guise…
Deep thought
Nothing says open and accountable government like a little-known fiscal commission labouring in the shadows to decree what public services will get slashed and/or sold off. That is, unless it's…
"Karl Marx, it seems, was partly right…"
Well, there's something you only ever hear from economists when they're pooping their pants because the system is going in to meltdown. We heard it in the early 1990s and…
Riotous Double Standards
Some riots we like, some not so much - by Oliver Heinrich I've been swamped with work - and working on a longer post on science geek stuff that I…
“The Frankenstein monster you created/Has turned against you, now you’re hated.”
by matttbastard Mary Riddell: London’s riots are not the Tupperware troubles of Greece or Spain, where the middle classes lash out against their day of reckoning. They are the proof…
When Privilege Becomes Indefensible
Lately there has been a spate of reports about the rich flocking to high end shops and indulging in the sort of luxuries reminiscent of the days before the Great…
Why Keeping Interest Low Won’t Save The Economy
As the old saying goes - expecting different results while repeating the same act over and over again is a sign of psychosis. That, however, has never stood in the…
More Capitalism vs Democracy
I was reading this article in Foreign Policy - a "debate" between two highly respected international economists, Nouriel Roubini and Ian Bremmer when I came acros the two quotes below.…
I Heart Giorgio Mammoliti
It's not every day that a politician comes along who is so totally and completely ridiculous and juvenile, such a cartoon character, that they are a like a gift from…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. - Andrew Jackson describes the next phase of the global economic crisis: Now we face a new financial crisis, or at least a…