Economic Hitman Confesses
This is how I see the economic system of the world operating, and it’s the basis for many of my feelings about the economy in Canada and in Saskatchewan. It’s…
Economics
The Wall Street Triple-Penetration
The Young Turks have ran a number of stories on how major investment banks have gamed the US and global economic systems. In the video presented below, they discuss how…
TFSAs and progressive savings policies
With Harper's majority secured, it is quite likely that the popular Tax Free Savings Accounts (TFSA's) will double the allowable contributions to $10k per year by 2014. There is a…
The Political Economy of Professional Wrestling: Capital, Unions and Spandex
Wage Labour on the Fringes For all the attention it received, to my knowledge, no one provided much of a political analysis of Darren Aronofsky’s 2008 award-winning motion picture The…
The relationship between public goods and sovereignty
As our world modernizes, the relationships of self determination and sovereignty flex and change. Technological and sociological changes have made the provision of a wide variety of public goods possible…
Harper’s Reckless Economics
Throughout the election campaign Stephen Harper claimed the political high ground on the management of the economy. The surprise is that the opposition has pretty much let him get away…
The free market (wip)
The free market can give rise to the dead. The free market can walk on water. The free market can walk on wine which was formerly water.I've been thinking about…
Pharmaceutical Patent Lengths
Obama's recently announced deficit reduction proposal includes the reduction in patent lengths for brand name pharmaceutical drugs from 20 to 7 years. Let us step back and consider the case…
Having Their Cake and Eating It Too: Stanford – CCPA
CAW Economist Jim Stanford exposes the Big Conservative/Corporate Lie. The truth and the facts are that corporate tax cuts do not stimulate the economy and do not generate jobs and…
We get 30 cents back – People for Corporate Tax Cuts, Canada
People for Corporate Tax Cuts - Canada
Global financial crisis/recovery: What does it mean for Saskatchewan?
Global financial crisis/recovery: What does it mean for Saskatchewan? - by Dr. Simon Enoch, Director of the Saskatchewan office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. These remarks were delivered…
Stephen Harper is working hard – People for Corporate Tax Cuts Canada
People for Corporate Tax Cuts Canada
Picture ID, and the coming election
I don't have picture ID! Anyone have any extra bucks they can donate to help me get a BC ID? It's thirty-five dollars.I make no bones about it. I'm broke.…
Harper’s Hitlist: Power, Process and the Assault on Democracy – Dobbin
The following is reproduced from the Council of Canadians website: Stephen Harper’s Assault on Democracy Author and Rabble.ca columnist Murray Dobbin details the harm Prime Minister Stephen Harper is doing…
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…