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.…
economy
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
On 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…
IQT client Bell Canada should step up and help affected workers
Hundreds of Canadian workers should not be left in the lurch by the sudden closing of call centres in Trois-Rivières, Laval, and Oshawa. According to an on-line news article in…
On correlations
This summer has seen plenty of crowing from the right over a connection between "economic freedom" (as defined by various corporate think tanks) and GDP levels. But for those of…
On the Ontario PCs’ platform
So, here we go with the Ontario PC Platform, the Changebook (warning: PDF). Or is that the Change Book? ChangeBook? I don't know, and I don't think they do, either.According...
On the Ontario PCs’ platform.
So, here we go with the Ontario PC Platform, the Changebook. Or is that the Change Book? ChangeBook? I don't know, and I don't think they do, either.According to this,…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Armine Yalnizyan follows up on the Conference Board of Canada's recognition that growing inequality is a serious problem for Canada by noting the…
On the Ontario NDP’s 2011 platform.
Okay. The Ontario NDP's platform. The Plan for Affordable Change (warning: PDF). Jeez, focus-group that name much? I'm splitting this into the four areas that the ONDP did in the…