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Slouching toward a Great Depression

Taliesyn — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:54:56 +0000

Monty Pelerin at AmericanThinker had a great column yesterday, where he explains clearly the coming economic collapse: We are headed for an event that history will record as worse than the Great Depression. It is unavoidable… The principal reason for the dire prediction is the level of debt outstanding. Current debt levels are simply not sustainable. …

Spend the $5 Billion to mitigate Climate Change

Taliesyn — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 03:07:08 +0000

Today, there was much in the news about the report by the National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy, which says that the effects of global warming could cost Canada $5 Billion dollars a year by 2020. If you read my post of January 2010, this would be a great deal! We should embrace …

Book Review : Reckless Endangerment

Taliesyn — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 23:04:05 +0000

In Reckless Endangerment, Gretchen Morgenstern and Joshua Rosner, both of the New York Times, do a reasonable job of exposing some of the greed and corruption that led to the financial collapse of 2008 and the Great Recession which America finds itself unable to recover from even three years later. I found the exposé of …

Mark Cuban on Patent Law

Taliesyn — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 03:06:04 +0000

Mark Cuban has a very good post recommending improvements to the patent law system. While his reference is clearly the US patent system, this applies to most of the patent laws around the world, including here in Canada. I would add one more thing to Mr. Cuban’s short list of fixes. While he focuses on …

An excellent rant on why business doesn’t trust Obama or Congress

Taliesyn — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 04:09:35 +0000

h/t sda

The problem with “Alternative Fuels”

Taliesyn — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:27:00 +0000

I will admit that I am employed in a field that is heavily tied to the energy sector, which may bias me towards it, although I hope not as much as some might think. I am not against alternative energy sources. However, I am against massive government subsidies to force convert us, because the track …

On Taxation and Affordability

Taliesyn — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 04:21:45 +0000

Two items in the news/blogosphere over the last week caught my attention and triggered a thought in my mind. The first was the news that a survey by Environics for TD Canada Trust found that 30 per cent of respondents don’t have enough cash to pay for basic living expenses. This was run as the headline …

Ayn Rand, Futurist

Taliesyn — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 05:06:59 +0000

Normally, I don’t like to post blatant “I agree” posts that simply point to someone else’s blog, but this time I can’t resist: (Philadelphia Inquirer, 12 Dec 201) Earlier this month, responding to a shortage of chemotherapy drugs in Minnesota, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.) wrote to FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg asking that the FDA …

The big blow ups?

Taliesyn — Wed, 12 May 2010 22:07:09 +0000

Margaret Wente, in the Globe and Mail this week, writes that we live in an era of big “blow ups” that cannot be stopped. The problem, as I see it, is not that Wente’s smartest people in the world have no idea how to stop it. It is a combination of: People who think they …

We don’t need a new “National Food Policy”

Taliesyn — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:15:35 +0000

Prof. Ignatieff is proposing that the government get MORE involved in the production and sale of food in Canada, to help farmers, help Canadians eat healthier, and improve exports… Wait, one of the reasons why many Canadian agricultural products aren’t exported is because of the supply management systems that make Canadian dairy, poultry and eggs …