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[Full Comment] Brian Lee Crowley: Why Canada became a welfare state - Full Comment: So no change in the general zeitgeist of the post-war industrial world can prove a sufficient explanation for Canada’s sudden embrace of the welfare state, an innovation to which Canada had so far proved remarkably resistant. Others will find the popularity of left-wing ideas, the counter-culture, feminism, effective contraception, cities and city life, the attractions of Keynesian-style demand management, rejection of tradition and the rise of relativism and hostility to authority and other ideas abroad in the West at this time to be sufficient explanation of the direction Canada took in these years.

[Blue Like You] What is Bob Rae's game? - Blue Like You -: Here’s what I actually think is going on in the head of Bob Rae and many others in the Liberal Party of Toronto -  It is time for the Natural Governing Party to reclaim its rightful role on the Canadian political landscape. They have been in the woodshed for far too long.  Canadians will see the folly of their ways in electing a Conservative Government.

[In These Times] Crocker's Kooky Economics -- In These Times: What Bush won’t say is that he hopes that Iraqis will continue to flee the country (over 2 million from a country of 25 million pre-war), continue to die in sectarian violence, continue to die from terrorism from Al Qaeda-like groups, continue to die for health reasons, continue to move into neighborhoods of one religious sect…until the Iraqi population has been so decimated and segregated that our troop level can finally deal with the lower numbers of Iraqis. It’s a war of attrition against the Iraqi civilians.

[Full Comment] Jonathan Kay: Why Ignatieff's Tim Hortons gimmick is landing with ...: If anyone is going to turn their noses up at overheated rhetoric and facile political stunts, surely it's going to be the Hogtown snobs who once thought that Ignatieff's Liberals were going to deliver the intellectually upscale politics Canadians say they want.

[Comments for Climate Audit] Ian Castles on IPCC Economic Assumptions « Climate Audit: The IPCC has selected Professor Nakicenovic and Brian Fisher, Director of the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE), as the two Coordinating Lead Authors of the chapter in the Panel's next assessment ....

[bizzXceleration: Performance, Value and Profit] bizzXceleration: Performance, Value and Profit: Where's the Money ...: Since May 7, when the S&P 500 traded 9.132 billion shares, trading volume has been on a long, slow decline. Last week trading barely topped four billion shares on several consecutive days, some of lightest days since the markets all but froze in the days leading up to the Christmas holiday last year.

[ReadySteadyBlog] Robert Kelly « Interview « ReadySteadyBook - a literary site: And all the recentiores: Perec, Roubaud, Sebald, Lacan, Gaddis, Agamben, Caponegro, Winterson, Iain Sinclair, Carey Harrison, Vonnegut, Philip Roth, William Vollman, Viktor Klemperer’s memoirs, Nathaniel Mackey, Geoffrey O’Brien, John Ashbery, Ann Lauterbach, Thomas Meyer, Jerome Rothenberg, Clayton Eshleman, Keith Waldrop, Gerrit Lansing, Charles Stein, Kenneth Irby - these are the ones that come to mind this warm Sunday morning.

[TPMmuckraker] TPMmuckraker | Talking Points Memo | Y Kant Ryun Crockr Do Economiks: Perhaps Crocker's single biggest claim during his two days on Capitol Hill was this: "The IMF estimates that economic growth will exceed 6 percent for 2007." It's a true statement as far as it goes, but the International Monetary Fund's Executive Board reported the figure with less enthusiasm. "Economic growth has been slower than expected," the IMF fretted, "mainly because the expected expansion of oil production has not materialized."

[Barron's Cover Story] Glad Men - Barrons.com: WITH THE OVERALL ECONOMY stabilizing and economic growth seen at 3.2% in 2010 -- a year that brings us the Winter Olympics in February, the World Cup soccer tournament in June and midterm elections with some hotly contested political ." The rate of decline has stopped falling, and we feel positive because we've stopped banging our head so hard against the wall," says Brian Wieser, global director of forecasting at Magna, a division of Interpublic Group's Mediabrands, .

[politicalbetting.com] politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » All aboard for a black ...: The LD conference is on right now, there’s been a load of political positioning in the media and yet today’s thread has been 95% OT, about lingerie [my contribution is accepted], footie and other assorted topics with a brief spurt in the middle about Clegg’s speech/Balls idiocy.

[Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog] Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog: Is the U.S. a "Functioning ...: Putting national emergency planning in the hands of a lawyer fired by the show horse federation, because he was somebody's college roommate -- that's really special even by Bush administration standards, and you'd think it would be the kind of thing tv viewers would notice and voters would remember. But in the US nothing seems to matter politically in the long run unless the right decides to allow it to -- everything else just goes down the memory hole. 

[Bill Cara] Bill Cara: About the market and the blog, Thurs., Aug. 17, 2006, 9 ...: If this is a bear market(and economic fundamentals certainly support that conclusion as pointed out by Bill over the past few months) then it has only lasted 3 months or so, well short of the median duration of around a year. So even though the chart "seems" bullish, and the bulls may appear to be winning for now, it's best to stay cautious and not get sucked onto the bull side by too much.

[Cafferty File] Cafferty File: Tell Jack how you really feel Blog Archive - When ...: Jack I myself gloom and doom and don’t see it coming out for a long time, especially with these idiots that are going to let millions of Auto workers loose there jobs and loose are Independence and a hole culture as well. Retraining 2 to 3 million people is not going to happen just like that, I can speak with experience Ive been in limbo for three years and have not found any thing yet with all the help that’s been available and I am only one let alone millions.

[Freakonomics] The Economics of Teeth, and Other Beauty Premiums - Freakonomics ...: Glied and Neidell used a clever methodology to measure the impact of teeth on earnings: whether and/or when a certain city’s population had access to fluoridated water. As they explain in the abstract: “The politics surrounding the adoption of water fluoridation by local water districts suggest exposure to fluoride during childhood is exogenous to other factors affecting earnings.”

[The Health Care Blog] The Health Care Blog: The managed care roller coaster: Witness the growth spurt of IPAs, management companies and a literal industry supporting physician assumption of risk and PHO hospital collaboration that followed. Only to crash and burn due to the fundamental mis-fit between a non-profit service motivated, community based HMO culture and the vast riches envisioned if only those entities could be rolled-up on Wall Street with the then prevailing P/E's that would be applied to any surplus generated.

[Dallas Mavericks] Summer League: Mavericks 73, Thunder 54 - Dallas Mavericks Blog ...: or Dallas could sign a veteran such as Rasho Nesterovic, Jason Collins, or Brian Skinner. There was also a few other options like Eddy Curry, but they don't appear as good fits for a team looking to get quicker at the C spot or just get a solid body to defend and play mistake-free basketball...

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