- Are the stimulus package(s) in Canada and the United States only raising false hopes? :: State spending programs can mitigate some of the damage, for some people. That’s all. Ontarians learned this the hard way in the early 1990s. Premier Bob Rae tried to spend his way out of a recession. He failed.
- Paul Krugman thinks the stimulus package is 50% too small and the economy will shed 600,000 more jobs because of it.
- Economic tough times to continue: former PM :: Remembered for his deficit-fighting policies as Canada’s finance minister, and for a short stint as the country’s prime minister, Paul Martin weighed in on the state of the global economic crisis in an interview yesterday.
- Bailout Nation :: Since when did it become a crime for companies to go bankrupt?
- The sad story of those who cheered on the Boss at the Super Bowl half-time show
- Sobering news about the economy: Cars are being dumped at the Dubai airport
- U.S. lost 600,000 jobs in January, worse than analysts feared
- Val Kilmer ponders a run for New Mexico’s governor’s seat in 2010
- Photos of antique typewriters
- Octuplets Mom’s Doctor Under Investigation
- The coming ebook revolution
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