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Entries from December 2008

Dogbert is a Financial Genius

December 16th, 2008 · No Comments

I’m seeing a lot of good comedy about the folly of our ways but no one states it so simply as Scott Adams:

Brilliant.
Of course, hindsight and all that… A few years ago it may have looked differently

Invest in high risk cattle, they’re only high risk because of an outbreak of Mad Cow disease.
Buy the [...]

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Tags: Economics

Corporate Socialism

December 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Corporate welfare vs. Corporate social responsibility
In North America,
* the banking sector has been failling, yet reportedly, the top execs are still making multi million$ in compensation.
* the auto industry is on the brink of collapsing in on itself after years of what I suggest is due to both poor management and design
* both sectors are [...]

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Anarchy in the House

December 4th, 2008 · 3 Comments

And now for something completely different…

Jack and Gilles went to the Hill to try to crush the Tories.
Stephane’s the man to lead the plan,
And Michaëlle gets to decide the outcome.
Global economic crises abound and we don’t have a functioning government!  I cannot claim to understand all of the inner working of our political system.  However, [...]

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