Monthly Archives: June 2015

Wheels coming off in Canada

The hype and promise of Canadian growth and stock market bulls has been that lower oil prices would be offset by a surge in export demand spurred by the weakening Canadian dollar. Unfortunately this was a pipe dream.  Canada’s manufacturing … Continue reading

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How Iceland broke precedent and reined in its runaway financial sector

While Japan, then North America and Europe repeatedly bailed out and held their banking cartel harmless the past 30 years, in 2008 Iceland took another path. The rest of the world must do likewise. Concluding Remarks from Gudrun Johnsen of … Continue reading

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Fossil fuel subsidies paying polluters to continue

Perverse financial incentives are undermining essential human progress in the energy revolution. For sustainability of life on earth, we need to evolve out of the fossil fuels age and towards the cornucopia of renewable, clean, low cost and free energies … Continue reading

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