January 2012
20 posts
This American Life - takes a look at the European...
Just listened to way more Poison the Well then any almost 30 banker really should.
WatchBorn Gold - Lawn Knives
Watch in full screen
Main Story - One Millionth Tower →
Great vision for building community in Toronto
The profitable side of Socialism →
Why aren’t we doing this in Canada?
December 2011
12 posts
Year of the Crisis Summit - The Globe and Mail →
-Hedge funds, led by Kyle Bass of Texas, launch a mass, co-ordinated short sale of euro-zone debt after the shocking discovery that the pope is German and the European central banker is Italian.
- Ms. Merkel, declaring the end of the Year of the Crisis Summit, is forced to declare 2012 the Year of the Crisis Summit (II) when finance ministers argue convincingly that the summits are the euro...
How many economists does it take to change a light...
None. If it really needed changing, market forces would have caused it to happen.
WatchBattles: Africastle
Watchpitchfork:
Robyn’s backward somersault/floor hump (while wearing platform Timbs!) is one of several highlights from her performance of “Call Your Girlfriend” on last night’s “SNL”.
“In almost all those cases, I would argue that, in mostly small ways, those...”
– The Grid TO | Two key questions we’re not hearing from City Hall
One of the best articles I’ve seen so far on the budget debate.
Dollar-for-dollar, every single cut in the 2012... →
Canadian Politics
From the Toronto Star:
The opposition New Democrats pointed out earlier this week that Norway estimates it will spend $40 billion for 52 of the radar-evading fighters — considerably more than the $16 billion the Harper government says it will spend for 65 jets.
Fantion says it’s very difficult to compare the purchases “dollar-for-dollar”, but promised the all-party committee...
Got some really good news at work, then left early to picked up the new iphone and still, the most exciting part of my day was that a Loblaws opened up around the corner. To be fair, they are dry aging their steaks - that is next level…. I think with that sentence, I just crossed over from my mid-twenties and in to my late twenties.
November 2011
13 posts
Watch
The Inefficiency of Local Food » Freakonomics →
I have made 18,516 google searches since June...
Mind-boggling. Check out your search history here. The fact that this is all tracked, is double mind-boggling.
TD becomes Canada’s biggest company by market... →
“The market has turned into a derivative of what’s happening in Europe…Italy’s...”
– Wall Street Plunges as European Debt Plight Worsens - Reuters (via jonathanmarcus)
Risk management was the right choice. Time to buy VIX…
iamdonald:
You can listen to all of Camp HERE on npr.
October 2011
14 posts
Occupy Toronto: The one-week anniversary party -... →
“I have taken to doing the human mic as an act of conscientious citizenry. I went home to have dinner with my parents and when my mother would speak, I would repeat it so that my dad could hear at the other end of the table. At one point, she says ‘pass the potatoes’ and I shout ‘pass the potatoes’ and then my dad just freaks out. He starts laying into me and then tells me...
World War II in Photos - 20 Part Retrospective -... →
Haunting but fascinating.
California adopts first cap-and-trade program in... →
A step in the right direction