And yes, Canada’ s been taking notes, too
A classic debate over economic policy turns nasty, and personal—sort of
Paul Dewar calls on the Harper government to support a financial transaction tax at the G20.
How would Americans handle an alien invasion in this time of partisan rancour?
Frances Bean Cobain comes of age, Ai Weiwei opens up, and Vladimir Putin’s latest macho stunt backfires
Stephen Harper, Sept. 15, 2008. “My own belief is if we were going to have some sort of big crash or recession, we probably would have had it by now.”
Paul Krugman really doesn’t like the Obama administration’s latest plan for fixing the banks. I mean, really really. This vehement a reaction, from this not-automatically-hostile voice, on a weekend after a hellacious week for the White House, is a non-trivial problem for the Obama administration.
Households need to save more. Banks need to rebuild capital. These are not bad things.
Gordon Brown gets a good review. The reviewer gets to polish his resumé.