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Where Canadian Tax Dollars Are Spent - Public Opinion Research

I have noticed that when politicians are confronted with bad polling numbers that they always use the "I don't believe in polls" or "We don't govern using polling numbers" excuse for ignoring what the electorate is trying to tell them.  Apparently, as in most

Last Updated on Monday, 06 May 2013 08:20

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CEO Compensation A Pay Ratio Travesty

With Main Street America struggling to regain employment prospects lost during the Great Recession, it is intriguing to see how those who live in the "corporate clouds" have fared since the so-called recovery began four years ago.  A recently published interactive webpage by

Last Updated on Friday, 03 May 2013 07:51

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Why This "Recovery" is Different

Why This An article by M Ayhan Kose, Prakash Loungani and Marco Terrones, all of the IMF, on the VOX website examines why this global recovery is different and why, despite the fact that we are four years into the recovery, has it been so weak compared to past post-recession recovery

Last Updated on Wednesday, 01 May 2013 08:54

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The Next Housing Crisis - Relying on Echo Boomers

The Next Housing Crisis - Relying on Echo Boomers   A 2012 paper entitled "Demographic Challenges and Opportunities for U.S. Housing Markets" by the Bipartisan Policy Centre examines how growth in the number of seniors in the United States (and, for that matter, any developed nation with a large cohort of Baby Boomers) and how it will

Last Updated on Tuesday, 30 April 2013 15:46

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Will paywalls save the newspaper business

Will paywalls save the newspaper businessFaced with sharply declining advertising revenue for both print and online newspapers, papers are trying to entice free readers to pay up for the news. It works partially: old people will pay anything to keep their news habit but young readers are already left the barn.

From

Last Updated on Monday, 29 April 2013 08:45

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The Federal Reserve Balance Sheet Woes

In researching another posting, I stumbled on some interesting data that I wanted to pass along.   Since the Great Recession, the Fed has been very busy intervening in the free market in a series of desperate attempts to stimulate the

Last Updated on Thursday, 25 April 2013 07:52

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Which Nations have the Highest Top Marginal Tax Rate?

Which Nations have the Highest Top Marginal Tax Rate?A brief by the Tax Policy Center looks at the top individual marginal tax rates for a selection of developed economies (i.e the OECD nations), putting the current top rates in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom into perspective when compared to their peers.  While most people

Last Updated on Saturday, 20 April 2013 12:42

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