Economy
More Taxpayer-Funded Propaganda from Ottawa
Depending on where you live in Canada and your political leanings, the Harper government's proposed changes to the Employment Insurance system have either received positive ……Read More
Economy
Economy
A Long and Painful History of Sovereign Debt Default
A paper by Michael Tomz of Stanford University and Mark Wright of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago looks at the long history of sovereign ……Read More
Economy
The Tip of Europe’s Sovereign Debt Iceberg
A rather interesting bit of research by Marco Lagi and Yaneer Bar-Yam at the New England Complex Systems Institute examines Europe's debt crisis in some ……Read More
Economy
Selling New One Family Homes in America
While there have been modest improvements in the U.S. housing market, one key metric is still looking pretty sad. Here is a graph from ……Read More
Economy
The Costs of War
Now that ten long years has passed since war operations began in Iraq and eleven and a half years have passed since war operations began ……Read More
Economy
Jim Flaherty’s Budgets The Best Laid Plans
Now that Mr. Flaherty is about to deliver his ninth budget, I thought it was prudent to take a look back at the accuracy of ……Read More