Day: March 24, 2009

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March 24, 2009

Canada: A Tale of Two Georges

anada is again being mentioned in international headlines as a superstitious backwater. Here . Here . And even the Globe had something to say about this. The RCMP response can be found here (PDF). The good news is that no one knew about George Galloway a few weeks ago and now he’s top of the list for most Canadians that care about why we would […]

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March 24, 2009

UN Recommends World Should Ditch Dollar

It’s about time:  folks at the UN are recommending that the world ditch the US dollar in favour of a shared reserve currency. Original Reuters story here . For years (arguably, decades), the US has dominated the world economic scene because they’ve been very effective in having everything trade in US dollars, including commodities, treasuries and other securities. The commodity shock that the world felt […]