Solar Stock Review

As 2009 commences, some of those who were bearish on solar late last year, appear to have seen the light. 2008 saw solar stocks slide ... and the US. Then there was the evaporation of credit with the housing and financial crisis, culminating ... firms.Investors are looking for ways of protecting their money. A recent U.S. Energy Department report may offer [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 23:33:00

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Debt Rattle, November 23 2008: How can I convey to you?

National Photo Co. Happiness 1919 A child holding the Thanksgiving turkey. Ilargi: It may seem sort of hard to decide which idea is sillier. But then again, that's not really fair. The nonsense oozing from Bush and Canadian PM Harper in Peru about how free trade will solve all our problems within the next 18 months goes way beyond silly [more...]

Date: 2008-11-23 20:47:32

Canada's labor market is set to decline; expansionary policy will help

Canada has been holding its own. With its stronghold in commodity-based production, profits have soared, ... Canadian dollar has held core inflation in check. But with U.S. economic growth expected to post at least ... territory. Compared to the U.S., where employment has declined by 1.2 million jobs since the beginning [more...]

Date: 2008-11-24 22:38:59

Hot Stocks: Canadian Ford Dealer Offers Ford Shares to Buyers of Ford Vehicles

If you like the car, will you love the company? When it comes to Ford Motor Co. (F), a Canadian car dealer bet a month’s sales on that premise ... are pressing both U.S. and Canadian lawmakers for emergency aid. All three are to submit turnaround ... ), according to a report that runs elsewhere in today’s (Wednesday’s) issue of Money Morning. Among other [more...]

Date: 2008-12-03 15:01:09

Alaska News Nightly: October 22, 2008

Aleutian waters may have claimed 11 lives and a 92-foot fishing vessel overnight. Search teams have found debris and a body, but no survivors so far ... t meet its credit guidelines. In Juneau, some home buyers can’t get credit and that’s hurting the real estate industry and others. Department of Law to report on fuel price-fixing investigation Dave [more...]

Date: 2008-10-23 01:55:34

Wednesday morning headlines

Economic UnrestFed cuts key interest rate to nearly zero (Washington Post)Drop in consumer prices is most since 1932 (MarketWatch)Bush says he sacrificed free-market principles to save the economy (AFP)Canadian PM Harper says ... Republican (James P. Pinkerton)Warning: A new credit card scam (Ted Twietmeyer)Misc.Bettie Page is laid [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 11:34:00

Safe Drug Injection Sites

Will San Francisco follow Vancouver’s lead?San Francisco is on the brink of agreeing to open what would officially be the nation’s first medically ... Canadian program, the Insite injection facility, established in Vancouver in 2003.“None of us want ... and called it “poor public policy." An AP/Google report from last year reported that overdoses [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 20:34:00

Flaherty vows short-lived deficit, consults corporate chiefs on spending initiatives

Alternate headline… “Alleged economic conservative regurgitates Keynesian dogma for media, CCCE chief and ‘Building a North American Community’ co-author pushes infrastructure spending.” What are the chances that infrastructure money is going to go towards some NASCO corridor, new security and tracking technologies at the border, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-25 00:47:55

Bank of Canada overnight rate statement

From the BoC Web site: OTTAWA – The Bank of Canada today announced that it is lowering its target for the overnight rate by three-quarters of a ... to encourage credit flows, although it will take some time before conditions in financial markets ... inflation than had been projected at the time of the last Monetary Policy Report in October. Several [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 14:04:00

Muslim denial or be a complete moron. I am not even sure it is possible to disabuse these imbeciles of their contradictory notions but let me try by considering each of the falsehoods numbered above: Israel left Gaza more than 3 years ago. There is no occupation, brutal or otherwise [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 01:09:15

Israeli hacker in jail ten years after U.S. military break-in [Security]

Ehud "The Analyzer" Tenenbaum, who became world-famous when he and a number of fellow Israeli and California teens successfully exploited a ... of having helped defraud credit card companies of $1.8 million. Wired dug up a slickly produced, pretty ... when Tenenbaum turned himself in to Israeli authorities on the day he was set to report for compulsory [more...]

Date: 2008-09-24 06:00:00

Update: MCC increases aid, advocacy for Gaza

by Gladys Terichow In the midst of air strikes, ground battles and a rising death toll, Mennonite Central Committee ( ... , they are purchasing food, water and blankets on credit and distributing them to families whose homes ... to the Canadian government, MCC Canada writes: “MCC believes that peace and security for all people [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 22:56:33

Circuit City To Liquidate… Over 30,000 Jobs To Be Cut

Bankrupt Circuit City Stores Inc., unable to work out a sale of the company, said Friday it will go out of business _ closing its 567 U.S ... had been seeking a buyer or a deal to refinance its debt, but the hobbled credit market and consumer worries ... stores and dealer outlets in Canada. Galardi told a judge there are still bids for the Canadian [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 21:58:08

Fine-tuning a materialist society - Introducing the “pre-crime”!

I am currently transcribing Canadian civil rights lawyer and journalist Ezra Levant’s talk at a lunch at the Canadian Bar Association offices ... introduced in Tom Cruise’s Minority Report, and fundamental, I suspect, to the materialist justice systems ... that is “likely to expose a person or persons to hatred or contempt. So Canadian commentator Mark [more...]

Date: 2008-06-17 17:28:02

THE UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA - No joke

What is going on here?http://www.youtube.com/user/sharpsteve2003Secretly, North American governance is pursuing a policy to expand NAFTA politically, ... with Mexico and Canada.Abrogation of Canadian/U.S.A./Mexican sovereignty to the North American Union ... blueprint President Bush and Prime Minister Harper is following was laid out in a 2005 report entit [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 16:49:00

Gwyn Morgan in today’s Globe and Mail - support Angel investing!

Today in The Globe and Mail’s Report on Business, founder and former CEO of EnCana Gwyn Morgan discussed what the government is or should be doing ... ventures that contain the seeds to grow into a Canadian global success, a prime example being Research ... requires an act of faith. Unfortunately, Canadian personal tax law provides investors with as much [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 16:26:38

Travel Tip Tuesday: Six Tips to Packing for An International Vacation

  As a bed and breakfast owner I’ve seen a revolving door of guests from all walks of life ... of American or Canadian-Italians retracing their heritage.   Like many excited travelers they come through ... me. You can.   50:365 Aaron's interpretive dance photo credit: stefawnnie    2. Allow yourself [more...]

Date: 2008-10-28 05:00:09

Private firm may administer UK surveillance database

We’re living in a Twilight Zone episode. It’s time to roll back this global police state insanity now. Privacy is not an obsolete concept, but part of the foundation of a free society. Alan Travis and Richard Norton-Taylor, The Guardian December 31, 2008 ‘Hellhouse’ of personal data will be created, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 15:21:09

SC Diocese Appears to Repudiates Catechism; SC Priest Is ‘Reined In,’ But Right (Update: Full Text of Letter)

BizzyBlog), I noted news that Fr. Newman, a Catholic priest and pastor at St. Mary’s Church in Greenville, South Carolina, had informed parishoners who voted for Barack Obama in full knowledge of the Illinois Senator’s aggressively proabortion positions that they “should not receive Holy Communion until and unless they are reconciled to God in the [more...]

Date: 2008-11-16 14:15:55

Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/12/2008

Some headlines to look at:“Muslim Killed Catholic Girl in Love With Flatmate”“London Fundraisers Linked to Stoning of 13-Year-Old”“Possibly Tens of Thousands of Somalis in the US Illegally”“New Anti-Christian Attack in Mosul, Two Sisters Killed”But then there’s this:“Denmark: Ready to Ban Headscarves for Judges”So it’s not all bad news [more...]

Date: 2008-11-13 04:52:00

DrumBeat: July 20, 2008

To Save Gas, Shoppers Stay Home and Click To go shopping these days, more Americans are trading in their car keys for a keyboard. Online shopping is gaining at a time when simply filling up a gas tank to head to the mall can seem like a spending spree. A number of retailers — including Gap, Victoria’s Secret and J. C [more...]

Date: 2008-07-20 13:14:15

Auto News

Chrysler Almost Didn’t Introduce Minivans Under Federal Loan Board Chrysler’s minivans - at the time innovative vehicles credited with the ... on a German news website. Ford Execs Hope To Fuel Company’s Image By shunning government loans, Ford ... for its Oshawa, Ont., car plant in its bid to win $2.4-billion in emergency aid. Midwest Credit [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 21:32:57

Gates of Vienna News Feed 8/27/2008

The news feed is outgrowing its format. Readers have been inspired by it to send in more tips, so that tonight there are more than fifty articles here. I can’t create headline links for all of them; otherwise the top part of the post would be too long, So, if you want to read all the news that’s fit to post, click “read further” and keep scrolling [more...]

Date: 2008-08-27 22:17:59

G-8 raises alarm over rising oil prices

OSAKA, Japan (AP) — Finance ministers from the Group of Eight industrialized nations urged oil producers Saturday to boost output to help stabilize record-high oil and food prices, calling the situation a serious threat to global economic growth. The world economy now faces “headwinds” because of the recent rise in prices, [more...]

Date: 2008-06-15 03:00:38

This Week in Scandal Watch

by Alexandra Andrews and Matt Townsend - 1. Subprime Mortgages and Ratings Agencies The House passed a housing bill Wednesday that should help 400, ... and lobbying at Fannie and Freddie. 2. Detainee Treatment Salim Hamdan (Credit: Neal Katyal/Reuters ... into the case of a Canadian detainee the U.S. sent to Syria, where he claims he was tortured. [more...]

Date: 2008-07-25 19:52:01

Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/5/2009

Read through the official European reactions to Israel’s ground offensive into Gaza: Zapatero, the Vatican, the Italian government — all are pressuring Israel for a ceasefire. The surprise is Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, who states that it would be pointless to condemn Israel without addressing what Hamas is doing [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 04:54:00

Deals of the Day: Korean Buyer Warned Against Lehman Brothers

By Stephen Grocer and Heidi Moore Deals of the Day includes all the major news of the morning related to mergers and acquisitions and financing ... . Reuters Precision Drilling Trust: The Canadian oil and natural-gas driller agreed to buy U.S. drilling ... if the watchdog’s recommendation to break up the airport group is confirmed in a final report ear [more...]

Date: 2008-08-25 14:50:00

Government Bailouts & Government Lies

“We’ve been suckered again … or so it seems” You might recall that we weren’t terribly fond of the $700 billion Troubled Assets Relief Program ( ... on financial institutions and thaw out the frozen credit markets. As usual, the government and its insider ... markets which supply consumer credit in such areas as credit card debt, auto loans and student [more...]

Date: 2008-11-13 20:06:37

Where Eagles Dare

9 September 2008 Helmand Province, Afghanistan When I was briefed on the top-secret mission before it was launched, I thought : “Good grief.  I might have to report on the failure of one of the largest and most important missions ... of a handful of special operators—often on horseback—to a sort of lethal day-to-day business.   Morale [more...]

Date: 2008-09-07 08:00:05

Putnam Fund closes after investors pull cash

Putnam Investments on Thursday suddenly closed a $12 billion money-market fund and announced plans to return investors' money after institutional ... as possible - an action Putnam said was "not related to the portfolio's credit quality, but was instead ... Report. Combined with an additional $80 billion removed in the five preceding business days, total [more...]

Date: 2008-09-19 03:08:13

Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/16/2008

A woman will lead Muslim prayers in Oxford. The EU bans incandescent bulbs. The FBI launches an investigation of ACORN.But the story about the subduing of the drunken hijacker on an airliner bound from Turkey to St. Petersburg is my favorite, because of this quote:“Surprisingly this hooligan was not British,” said an official at Pulkovo [more...]

Date: 2008-10-17 03:55:00

Cables, dispatches and memoranda

A brief world news roundup for 5 November 2008. United States & the Americas Washington Post - Obama Sweeps to Victory, Will Become 44th President NOSI - New York Times Magazine - Stuart Levey’s War; How an unassuming Treasury under secretary is implementing innovative sanctions on Iran that could finally [more...]

Date: 2008-11-05 06:38:45

The best laid plans of mice and men …

I had just finished leaving a comment in response to J. Kaye’s post about her upcoming week, in which she lauded me for my organizational skills.  I told her that she gives me too much credit, that I make a plan in order to give myself an idea of what I’d like to accomplish during the week, but that I have to be flexible … and then …. Well [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 15:13:28

Dollar Weakens Versus Euro on Speculation Retail Sales Declined

By Stanley White ... may become necessary to ensure stability and the normalization of credit markets,” he said.Dollar ... , the pound, the Canadian dollar, the Swiss franc and the Swedish krona, fell 0.6 percent to 83.746 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 08:45:00

It seems to me

That if you're a telemarketer, ignoring the do not call list... or if you're a telemarketer from another country and you're ignoring our laws.. ... has answered and asked them to stop calling. The guy laughed. Hung up.Of course, I could report ... aggravated.The plot thickens... I had this post ready to go when I received an email from the Canadian Pharmac [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 14:00:00

Free weekend reading stuff

Live Free Or Die! Yay, it's the freestuff post. Get yourself learned up on these free themes and memes, all of a business type this week: ... with highly respected stock analyst David Coffin, the subject being Canadian uranium junior Hathor (HAT.v ... I thought I'd pass this one on. DYODD, dude. Here's the link.Here's the link to a free report from Moody's [more...]

Date: 2008-12-06 14:57:00

The voice of the “free TEFL course” speaks

After my disbelieving post about the truth of claims of free TEFL training (followed by disbelieving comments by my regular readers, both of them), I got a reply from someone in the parent company and sent off some questions that I thought were worth asking. He didn’t have time to answer my follow up questions, but I have left them in ( [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 11:17:00

December 8, 2008: Obama on the Economy & Caroline Kennedy, New York Senator?

POLITICS & PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION WATCH: Canada in Focus: Dion’s Speech Beset By Technical Woes: In the battle of the airwaves Wednesday, ... with the prime minister he hopes to replace. - Canadian Press, 12-4-08 Gov. Gen. Agrees to Suspend ... Conservative government. - Canadian Press, 12-4-08 The Headlines… Scott Olson/Getty Images President-elect [more...]

Date: 2008-12-08 08:22:22

Will oil, gas spending drop in 2009?

Global spending on oil and gas exploration and production will shrink 12 per cent to $400 billion in 2009 as the steep slide in energy prices and tight credit markets reverse a six-year trend of rising budgets, analysts at Barclays Capital said ... its report showed.Another analyst agreed, saying companies were being prudent during the economic crunch [more...]

Date: 2008-12-20 06:49:00

To p2pnet — ‘You’ll be sorry!’

p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P: “You a fucking washed out loser. You can not make a living in any other way except by running a site which says it is a new site that which is nothing but you shooting your mouth off.” That’s part of several emails I found waiting for me following yesterday’s Trolls? Not. But flames? OK (mostly) [more...]

Date: 2008-11-23 15:27:24

ONLINE FINANCIAL THEFT REAPS BILLIONS - CYBERCRIME SYNDICATES THRIVE

Back in the good old days of the Internet, the hacker was a teenager motivated by high-tech pranks and bragging rights. Today, the online thief could be anyone with ‘Net access after a quick buck. “Hacking has escalated from a destructive nature to financial gain through phishing, targeting people for bank account details, [more...]

Date: 2008-07-30 15:35:56

Tuesday/Wednesday overnites

Hoist the colors, raise the sails, put the Black Flag high my son, and let us set sail for new horizons, new years, new peoples and New Lands. . . . ... personal songs to me on it - This Time Around by Cross Canadian Ragweed on the Garage CD. An absolutely ... . However, I'm going to give Bush a break on this one. In this DebkaFile report from back on [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 03:57:00

Stewardship and Social Responsibility

“Scent marketing, especially at the scale proposed by Brumfiled , clearly intrudes into basic human rights issues ... from someone slipping drugs into drinks without permission?” –from The Canary Report, January 11 ... as they spell your name right,” so it appears I lose on both scores with The Canary Report, which managed [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 00:19:30

Rick Rule on Commodities: Be Prudent, Study Hard, and Take Advantage of Volatility

Source: The Gold Report Investor Rick Rule, founder of Global Resource Investments, is legendary in the mining, energy, ... , the current credit crisis probably forestalls the development of many large new deposits, meaning that the very credit crisis that we’re experiencing will limit new supplies of base metals, agricultural [more...]

Date: 2008-11-07 15:43:14

DrumBeat: June 29, 2008

Energy crisis casts dark cloud over Massachusetts Bay State electric and natural gas shut-offs are predicted to increase by at least 20 percent ... protests over land use, food, fuel and jobs. Report blows hole in wind power plan Wind power would be too unreliable to meet Britain's electricity needs, according to a new report. It says wind [more...]

Date: 2008-06-29 13:09:59

Debt Rattle, November 21 2008: Treading Lukewarm Water

G. G. Bain Wall Street Blood September 16, 1920 Aftermath of the explosion that killed dozens of people in New York's financial district, when a horse wagon loaded with dynamite and iron sash weights blew up in front of the J.P. Morgan bank at 23 Wall Street. The attack, which was attributed to Italian anarchists, was never solved [more...]

Date: 2008-11-21 21:39:31

January 9, 10, 11 - Unemployment Risies to 7.2% - Highest Yearly Job Loss Since 1945 - Google Rumors - Freightliner Dismisses 2137 - Semitool Chips Away 280 Jobs - Union Pacific Derails 231 - Boeing to Layoff 4500? - Beechcraft Ending 1600 Jobs? - Seagate to Delete More this Month

                                     Mike: Good day to all. Today’s big number is the Employment Situation, which is released at 8:30 EST ... %.             * Breaking news: Yet another sobering government labor report released Friday showed the economy ... jobs report, the unemployment rate rose to 7.2% last month from 6.7% in November and higher than [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 13:51:10

DrumBeat: December 29, 2008

Gazprom, Once Mighty, Is Reeling MOSCOW — A year ago, Gazprom, the Russian natural gas monopoly, aspired to be the largest corporation in the world. Buoyed by high oil prices and political backing from the Kremlin, it had already achieved third place judging by market capitalization, behind Exxon Mobil and General Electric [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 14:06:30

FREE GiveAway - "The Quiet Millionaire" - We are doing a giveaway of Brett Wilder's fantastic book "The Quiet Millionaire." To have a go at winning it you've to leave a comment with 2 random digits. Yes, it's that simple, so check it out. $50 Off - Northwest Airlines Discount Coupon CarnivalsI'll Never Forget the Day I Read a Book hosted Book [more...]

Date: 2008-10-03 04:28:03

Is it Safe?

Is it Safe? is NO! Another very bad week on the Stock Market, worldwide and things are not looking up in the near future, that is for sure ... at this one. Canadian Capitalist has some Ideas for your TFSA , which are quite good. I am still not sure ... what! Canadian Tax Resource suggests using RRSPs to Offset Capital Gains, which means the tax on the [more...]

Date: 2008-11-17 06:50:57

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