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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 ...

Iraq 5 years later
March 24, 2008, Comments Off on Iraq 5 years later

The $3 Trillion War, Josephy Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes (Vanity Fair, April 2008) After wildly lowballing the cost of the ...

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 ...

Bush and OPEC
March 6, 2008, Comments Off on Bush and OPEC

March 6 208 — Chakib Khelil, OPEC’s president this year, said at a meeting in Vienna that the high price of oil ...

OECD Environmental Outlook to 2030
March 6, 2008, Comments Off on OECD Environmental Outlook to 2030

How will economic and social developments drive environmental change to 2030? What policies are needed to address the ma ...

The Great Leap Backward?
March 3, 2008, Comments Off on The Great Leap Backward?

March 3 2008 Brazil’s lesson for China: do not ignore inequality“: (FT) In the late 1960s and 1970s, when Brazil ...

Abu Dhabi Fund Draws Scrutiny
February 28, 2008, Comments Off on Abu Dhabi Fund Draws Scrutiny

February 28, 2008 (NYT) Cash-Rich, Publicity-Shy, Abu Dhabi Fund Draws Scrutiny By LANDON THOMAS Jr. Abu Dhabi has about ...

Canadian business and foreign acquisition
February 27, 2008, Comments Off on Canadian business and foreign acquisition

February 27, 2008 (Globe & Mail) Corporate Canada easy prey for foreign buyers JANET MCFARLAND Canada’s takeov ...

Federal budget 2008
February 26, 2008, Comments Off on Federal budget 2008

February 26, 2008 Government of Canada Federal Budget (CBC News) Flaherty delivers ‘prudence’ in 2008 budget ...

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