The Canadian Economy I introduced the TIC report in US Treasury International Capital (TIC) System Data. The most recent version of it is Table 5: Major Foreign Holders of Treasury Securities. I’ve been following it for a couple of decades. Back at the start, Russia had about the 5th highest Read more
Some things are not Carney’s fault as in globally, how we measure up, right? Massive Potential Conflicts of Interest The Parliamentary ethics commissioner has examined Carney’s declared assets for potential conflicts of interest and has issued his Summary Statement. Northern Perspective comments on it (11:08 minutes). The assets are listed Read more
To start with, a bit of humour, here is Sylvia Shawcross’ analysis of Carney’s speaking characteristics: The Blarney and The Carney. Moving on, I want to review NATO and the recent NATO summit held in the Hague. A Brief Background on NATO NATO was created in 1949 at the beginning Read more
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The Canadian Economy The Digital Services Tax (DST) Fiasco Since I published The Carney Chronicles: Ep6, Bill C-5; Liz Truss on Carney, we have had the Digital Services Tax (DST) fiasco. The back story is that the Trudeau government passed legislation a year or more ago on which a tax Read more
I am beginning this episode after the close of the G7 meeting held here in Alberta. Funny that Zelensky, the illegitimate head of Ukraine, was able to walk in and chat. I guess it was worth it because Carney consequently flushed another $4.3 billion of taxpayer money down the Ukraine Read more
The White House Meeting, May 6 Before the meeting, Trump set the stage with the comment “We don’t need their Cars, we don’t need their Energy, we don’t need their Lumber, we don’t need ANYTHING they have…” (read “We Don’t Need Anything They Have… Except Friendship” – Trump Trounces New Read more
With the election behind us, I look at Carney’s first actions as PM. I am also initiating a sub-theme – that of what Alberta will do in response to the Carney government. To begin, however, I include a piece from the Epoch Times giving a high level view of Carney’ Read more
I began following many issues in the past, sometime after they had started. Coming in later, it was a lot of work finding earlier material that I had seen. Also, there was potentially relevant material that I had missed. Today, two days after the election, I am at the beginning Read more
I recently remembered a speech that Mark Carney gave as governor of the Bank of Canada (BoC), to the Montreal Board of Trade. In it he discussed the BoC’s position on inflation rate targets and the issues involved in setting them. I wrote about it in my former blog (long Read more