Ted Mallett

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Fired my Tesla today. Picked up a swede new ride

My 7 & 9yo grandsons doing the same. The schoolyards must be buzzing with it. Anti-Americanism is being baked into the next generation.

… Otherwise, the impulse to compensate every job loss or business sales decline on the assumption that it is caused by tariffs, could end up being expensive and inefficient. Tried to partner years ago with Statcan on a study of turbulence, but they could not maintain enough enthusiasm:(

… out of range of common headline macro stats. I highly recommend policymakers try to use longitudinal data from the Business Register and other datasets to come up with a better measure of the ‘natural’ rate of turbulence by sector and size of enterprise. …

As governments prepare to approach tariff fallout, compensation of businesses and employees caught out is high on the list. Causality of job or business loss, however, is nearly impossible to assign to a single source. There is a lot of econ turbulence that happens even the best of times, and…

Unlikely to send the 82nd Airbourne? I wouldn’t put it past him. I hope CAF has a counter plan in case of a US occupation in the high arctic

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Happy Flag Day everyone. Strong and free.

Layer on layer. We can count the number of snowstorms we've had this winter

One month of data does not a trend make, but Muskwagen will be hitting more than just a speed bump this year

Respectfully not a win unless [enter governing party here] can turn the powerful concensus of the past few days into real policy action. Reducing prov barriers, energy to market measures included. Trumpist actions will only get bolder

Agree. Ford’s response should be “we’ll reconsider it in 30 days”

Tariffs are bad enough, but uncertainty is the real killer. A 30-day reprieve isn’t worth much if the threat can be trotted out whenever he has a whim.

Fair. And I plan to keep my Muskwagen in the Garage

Hard enough to predict the ways a Can-US trade war will unfold, even harder to see how it can be walked back. This is a watershed moment for the economy, and Canadians will hold this grudge for a long time.

I followed the same advice there in the ‘70s

What stops Biden appointing himself to DoJ?

We don’t yet know what kind of ‘economic force’ will (may) get used. But creating any defensive measures aimed at making this painful to US interests will also create pain here. Whatever-we-have-as-a-govt will need to prepare the public’s backbone for this kind of fight.

Fuck2

Source of iron too

Dough-

…for BREAKFAST!

Aftermath to a relatively quiet Christmas morning. But have maybe gained 5 lbs and it’s not even dinner time. Blessings to everyone out there.

Thanks Google, very helpful

OK folks. I'm calling it a career. Entered the econ profession in the '82 recession and knew never to take things for granted. By good grace and luck I had a long and rewarding run. I appreciated my time with the ConfBoard & CFIB, and the friendships made along the way. Sure to enjoy Blue Skies :)

He can’t even write out $billions properly. We might be able to settle this with pocket change

Mullets Are Great Again

Damn, GPS is going to kill us faster

Thank you to all who have chosen to follow me in the past couple of days. Hope I can make it worthwhile. Hey bots, I think you won't find me as impressionable or as radical as you'd like--nice try masquerading as Jessica Alba.
Will be posting big news tomorrow, so stay tuned!

Oops, typo in the title Antoine

Popcorn Alert: The House Ethics Committee has voted to release the Matt Gaetz report.