Category: US economy

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October 10, 2008

Why this weekend’s financial summit should be held at the UN

The financial crisis is about to be solved by seven people.  7.  And the IMF.  Yay. Finance ministers from the G7 (I guess Russia is completely out of the picture now) will meet this weekend and into next week to sit around, pick their noses, maybe play a little backgammon and find new ways to screw their taxpayers.  It’s unlikely that they’ll find a solution […]

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October 10, 2008

Futher Exploration of the Financial Bailout

People keep asking how and why the financial is happening.  With running commentary from progressive Democrat Dennis Kucinich, Chris Hedges explores the financial crisis in layman’s detail . Basically, Americans got screwed.  The bailout package represents the greatest shift of wealth upwards that the world will ever see and few, if any, pennies will be spent on the 10 or so million Americans that are […]

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October 9, 2008

Why Canada Is Safe from the Wave of Financial Disaster

Today, Jim Flaherty disclosed that the Republicans Conservatives will not take any additional action to protect Canadians from the wave of financial distress that is covering the globe. Why are we safe?  Because Canada’s financial environment is more secure than what exists in the US and elsewhere. Why are we safe?  Because privately-held, but government controlled, institutions like the Canadian Deposit Insurance Company (the CDIC) […]

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September 15, 2008

Sarah Palin: She’s not a mini-van … she’s an Escalady!!

A few months ago, I wrote this little piece about ‘the Escalady’ . Now, it seems, this piece was fairly timely in that it is a much more accurate description of the new Vice-President nominee, Sarah Palin.  In fact, so many Republicans (and Conservatives) seem to want to latch on to this ‘demographic’ like they’re all friends and they have so much in common. Yeah.  […]