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Wednesday Night #1360
March 26, 2008, 1 Comment

Bhutan In contrast to the chaos and violence of many elections in emerging democracies (not to mention some of those tha ...

Wednesday Night #1359
March 19, 2008, 1 Comment

We had promised that Beryl would be with us last week to talk about the new publication, The MetropolitaIn, that he will ...

Wednesday Night #1358
March 12, 2008, 3 Comments

It seems we are stuck in a topic rut and not only in terms of frequency, quantity and quality of snowfall. The news appe ...

Why a U.S. Subprime Mortgage Crisis Is Felt Around the World
January 27, 2008, 1 Comment

Analysis of the 2007 Financial Subprime Crisis, by Jacques de Larosière “Markets have been surprised by the erupt ...

Wednesday Night #1351
January 23, 2008, 1 Comment

23 January 2008 We are delighted that at the suggestion of Consul General Mary Marshall, U.S. Ambassador David Wilkins w ...

Fears of global recession: stock indexes fall
January 22, 2008, 1 Comment

With thanks to the Huffington Post The financial turmoil is like an elephant in a dark room By Martin Wolf, Financial Ti ...

The Education of Ben Bernanke
January 19, 2008, 3 Comments

January 20, 2008 By ROGER LOWENSTEIN (NYT Magazine) Ben Bernanke’s first exposure to monetary policy was reading the w ...

Wednesday Night #1350 – with Peter G. Brown
January 16, 2008, 2 Comments

16 January 2008 We have a special treat for all those interested in a triple-e topic: ethics, the environment and econom ...

Wednesday Night Salon #1349 – emerging markets
January 9, 2008, 1 Comment

9 January 2008   The Report The Primaries Predictably, the 2008 U.S. elections was a major topic for this Wednesday ...

Carney under fire for role in 'trusts' decision
December 5, 2007, Comments Off on Carney under fire for role in 'trusts' decision

Eric Beauchesne, CanWest News Service December 05, 2007 OTTAWA — The next governor of the Bank of Canada came unde ...