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The Perils of Polling: B.C. election delivers rude surprise to pollsters
The recent B.C. provincial election which delivered a shocking Liberal party victory of 50 seats(44.5% of vote) and a fourth consecutive term to just 33 seats 39.5 % of the vote) for the New Democrats should send pollsters back to … Continue reading
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Canadian unemployment stable at 7.2 % inflation falls to -0.4 % seasonally adjusted annual rate.
The last report on unemployment in Canada from the Labour force survey showed that unemployment in April was unchanged at 7.2 %. Quebec at 7.8 % and Ontario at 7.7 % still show signs of slow growth and excessive unemployment. … Continue reading
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U.S. unemployment falls to 7.5 % U6, the broad definition is 13.4 %
The United States continues to make slow but steady progress on lowering its unemployment rate. Total unemployment was 7.5% down from 7.6 % last month. A total of 165, 000 were added to payroll employment and there were substantial upward … Continue reading
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The Owl of Minerva takes flight at dusk:The anti-Keynesian era is drawing to a close
The Owl of Minerva takes flight at dusk: The anti-Keynesian era is drawing to a close By Harold R. Chorney, Professor of political economy, Concordia university, Montreal.( I originally submitted this to the New York Times as an op ed … Continue reading
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Reinhart and Rogoff study based on flawed data:I pointed this out in 2010
It comes as no surprise to me that researchers at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst have published a study showing that the conclusions which Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff drew about debt and economic growth were inappropriate and unjustified … Continue reading
Boston Marathon Terrorism: An appalling act of barbarism
Terrorism, that plague of modernity has returned to haunt us with the cruel, cowardly attack on the Boston marathon. For millions of people the marathon is an iconic competition open to all levels of long distance runners of all ages. … Continue reading
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U.S. unemployment 7.6 % in March, 88,000 net new employment, sequester begins to slow job creation.
This past month’s U.S. unemployment numbers show that the rate of unemployment is dropping hardly at all and the number of new jobs created fell from the plus 200,000 range to just 88,000. The broader definition of unemployment fell however … Continue reading
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Unemployment in Europe averages 12 % as of February 2013
The bitter fruits of austerity are on display in the latest unemployment report from Eurostat. Overall there are 26 million people out of work in Europe. unemployment averages 12 %. It is 10.8 % in France,7.7 % in the U.K., … Continue reading
A tale of two bankruptcies: Washington Mutual versus Laiki Bank
According to Alan Blinder, a former vice chair of the Federal reserve and professor of Economics at Princeton and a Keynesian when Washington Mutual one of the largest banks in the U.S. with assets of $328 billion went bankrupt in … Continue reading
