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Libya – Double Standard?

What a week – Japan, Libya, QE2 or QEn, etc. The markets are in for a spin.

Now on the subject of Libya, the UN resolution gave the green light to mainly the US, the UK and France to go ahead and prevent Gaddafi’s forces from killing its people. Notice that Russia and Germany abstained from voting. Well Libya is certainly special – as in oil special – since we don’t seem to mind watching people getting killed in Yemen, or Bahrain or elsewhere in the Middle East. It seems we have just woken up: Gaddafi is this crazy dictator and …

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Monday, March 21st, 2011   Category: General   No Comments comments

Right wind blowing?

The left is probably still baffled by the election of Bob Ford in Toronto. Changes in attitude usually take time but elections have sometimes this effect on people: they think and rethink about the role of government in their lives.

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Wednesday, October 27th, 2010   Tags: , ,
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$202 What?

There is an interesting study by Larry Kotlikoff, professor of economics at Boston University, which states that the US is indeed bankrupt. How?

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Thursday, August 19th, 2010   Tags: , ,
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Refusing to be Counted or The Canadian Census Saga

I find this sage of the census in Canada quite interesting as it reveals how for most people the concept of freedom and individual liberties are foreign concepts. Intellectuals and academics are of course appalled as they rely on those data to entertain their research projects which are of course financed… you guessed it… by the state. Or special interest groups (industries, institutions, etc.) who need those data for … you guessed it… obtaining financing from the state. If a group need data it’s because they will have assessed that it’s a good investment, they will pay for it.

The fact …

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Thursday, July 29th, 2010   Tags: , ,
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