Economic experts (ie: people who have never worked for a living, but like to talk about it a lot) are talking about what a boost to the economy lowering the minimum wage would be.
Actually, though, the argument works even better if you talk about lowering the maximum wage. Then we can hire more CEOs, at [...]
Hey! The American medical insurance scheme kills babies. Isn’t that awesome? They have actual proof! Babies! Being killed! Because they don’t have universal healthcare!
Why not? Why, it’s too expensive, of course.
Ignore the fact that it’s actually revenue neutral. You have to ignore that fact, because it’s more important that established insurance companies stay in business. [...]
Finally? We were saying all along – and by “we” I mean people with hearts and brains – that security certificates were contrary to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. They represented cruel and unusual punishment, didn’t allow the accused to see the evidence against them, and are more apropos in a place like China [...]
I kind of enjoy it when kids whose parenting my own parents criticized grow up to be, like, highly-paid execs and scientists. It just helps prove that I’m an awkward loner who has failed to amount to anything because of my parenting, and not because of all that glue I huffed as a kid.
TD is reporting FLAT PROFITS!
OH MY GOD.
Wait, what? They made the same amount of profit that they did last quarter? Stop the presses…?
The Toronto-based bank on Thursday reported net income of $1.01 billion during the three months up to Oct. 31, 2009. That’s slightly down from $1.014 billion during the same period a year earlier.
But [...]
Harper is doing another China visit to drum up trade after he pissed them off by (rightly! I know, right?) criticizing their atrocious, shameful human rights record. Since it’s one of the world’s largest economies, and our second-largest trading partner, this mission is probably a good idea – especially since, Harper says, he remains firm [...]
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