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Terry & David Jones, the consummate diplomats, are with us from Washington on their annual fact-finding mission which always turns up more facts about Ottawa and Quebec than we can ever unearth. We can, of course, quiz them in turn about the buzz in The Nation’s Capitol […]

More on Wednesday-night.com Food and Cleo Paskal
Agriculture & Food
June 03, 2008
ChinaDialogue.net
Different countries have divergent approaches to international trade, and these are changing the way food is bought and sold. As world leaders meet in Rome this week to discuss soaring prices, C Paskal considers China’s approach.
There is global concern over the security implications of […]

January 20, 2008
By ROGER LOWENSTEIN
(NYT Magazine) Ben Bernanke’s first exposure to monetary policy was reading the works of Milton Friedman, the Nobel laureate. That was 30 years ago, when Bernanke was a graduate student at M.I.T., and he has been studying central banking ever since. By the time President Bush nominated him to run […]

14 November 2007
A few weeks ago, Tony Deutsch suggested as a topic the subject of the New York Times article “The Prize That Even Some Laureates Question“. It seems that a number of Nobel economics laureates take issue with the kind of work that has often been honored.
Complaints about prize winners generally fall into one […]

10 October 2007
Gerald Ratzer OWN and Tony Deutsch OWN, being responsible members of the McGill Pension Fund Committee, have conducted due diligence on the Tar Sands and are back from Fort McMurray fully propagandized and ready to share their findings.
If this is our only topic (which is unlikely), it will be a fascinating Wednesday Night. […]

August 31, 2007
News Analysis
By JENNY ANDERSON
… the business of creating new finance vehicles like derivatives and structured products has exploded in recent years. And [until quite recently] there remained a mostly rosy view of such instruments, because of their ability to help businesses and investors spread out risk.
But the global financial turmoil - set off […]

DB Plans Rapidly Disappearing: Study
July 12, 2007
An increasing number of corporations are doing away with traditional pensions, according to a new survey. …
The survey was conducted by the industry-supported Employee Benefit Research Institute and Mercer Human Resources Consulting. It found nearly two-thirds of employers offering defined-benefit plans have closed them to new […]

Antal Deutsch, Professor, PhD from McGill. Tony Deutsch says he “came to McGill in 1959 as a graduate student and never really left.” His research interests include pension plans, social security, taxes, and economic transformation. He is currently adviser to the Hungarian government, and has recently lectured on pension reform in China.
Husband of Hanna […]

Last week’s Wednesday Night discussion was overtaken by events and thus focused mostly on local issues, with the exception of conspiracy theories. This week we are faced with such world turmoil, we are hesitant to point to specific topics as possibilities, but let us try out some of the more flagrant headlines and see how […]

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