this is the first time I've seen a genuine smile of joy on Trump's face. Carney is the Trump whisperer!
too bad about the Canadian auto industry but it was always going to struggle to avoid collapse.
@hmacbe.bsky.social
author, Investment Traps 1999, When the Bubble Bursts: Surviving the Canadian Real Estate Crash 1st ed 2015 2nd ed 2018. travel, ski and golf born 310.99 looking for a new writing project
this is the first time I've seen a genuine smile of joy on Trump's face. Carney is the Trump whisperer!
too bad about the Canadian auto industry but it was always going to struggle to avoid collapse.
"deep dish pizza! I can't wait"
08.10.2025 04:27 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0OSFI has relied entirely on the lenders to check on this. so maybe what they are saying is that the banks can't be trusted to enforce the rules. this would by a 180 degree turn from the "light touch" regulatory environment that's been in place in Canada since the 1990s.
04.10.2025 17:40 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0since about 1959 as a Canadian youngster I remember hearing about "checks and balances" in the US system of government. I guess that was just talk.
27.09.2025 16:15 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0it's irritating to see that, once again, regulators tighten up when it's way too late to do any good.
26.09.2025 21:06 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice - why did the farmers vote for Trump twice?
25.09.2025 03:19 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0this speech is disturbing
youtu.be/Xi3GlDMrB3s?...
North America, especially the US, is falling behind the rest of the world. Savings on the cost of fuel, reducing emissions, smoother and quieter drive, much lower maintenance costs... all of these and more are benefiting the rest of the world except for N.A.
15.09.2025 19:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:
13.09.2025 23:47 β π 17115 π 4873 π¬ 250 π 218Spain has hit Israel with a new round of sanctions, including banning members of the IDF from coming to Spain.
Isn't it time the rest of the world followed?
and judges, he really doesn't like it when they defy him
01.08.2025 12:01 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Trump hates Powell defiance:
01.08.2025 11:59 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Alternative headline: Trump unilaterally imposes price hikes on almost everything Americans import from almost everywhere in the world.
01.08.2025 00:23 β π 19 π 5 π¬ 1 π 1#BookSky
19.07.2025 08:15 β π 39399 π 7840 π¬ 545 π 532Iβll say it again: It was a huge mistake for Congress to abolish itself.
22.06.2025 00:26 β π 25388 π 4295 π¬ 208 π 100not many men wear lifts in their shoes like that
23.05.2025 17:31 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Canada's debt problem is in the private sector, not the government.
23.05.2025 02:13 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0π€
13.05.2025 20:18 β π 653 π 68 π¬ 22 π 2"Mathematics brought rigor to Economics. Unfortunately, it also brought mortis."
-Kenneth E. Boulding
βKennedy told reporters that there were "many, many good ways to treat measles and doctors need to know that and to know those methods.β
One problem; there is no treatment for measles. Signed, a doctor whoβs been forced to deal with measles because of this stupid fraud.
πππ
πππ
Some. More. Good. News. πβ¨
Your regular reminder that you canβt leapfrog a working state: www.npr.org/sections/goa...
19.04.2025 18:01 β π 157 π 52 π¬ 1 π 7''The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.''
-John Maynard Keynes
Very informative chart from Washington Post
11.04.2025 10:15 β π 7094 π 2447 π¬ 181 π 220the collapse of the USD?
not really, it's exactly where it was 5 years ago
waiting for Xi to call, but he's not going to
09.04.2025 04:52 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0this interview with me on Bloomberg stands up pretty well, from 8 years ago. the question and answer at the end especially:
05.04.2025 13:05 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0a simple but flawed formula incited a market meltdown and possibly a recession
05.04.2025 12:48 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0