30
Sep
stored in: Simple Economics and tagged:

I am not impressed. With what? A lot… Let’s start with the economy:
 
The way I understand this whole crisis is pretty simple. People ended up borrowing from themselves to buy their homes. You can’t borrow money form yourself… If you need to borrow, it’s because you don’t have the money. Now let me explain.
 
Let’s take [...]

22
Sep
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 This week, I will be wearing a suit every day at school. I am encouraging anyone who reads this and goes to McGill to do the same. I find I learn better when dressed well… Maybe it’s because of a lifetime of private school. Nevertheless, if my endeavour is successful, I will continue to wear [...]

Well, let’s see if you can pass this little test. I will provide a quote from a professor. Your job is to tell me what you think it means. Here’s the quote (as heard and written down by me in class this fall):
“the relationship to what is non-subjectivity is abstracted from, and is a kind [...]

I am not sure how we have managed to catch this “election” fever, but my feeling is this one is going to be ugly. This election will be catastrophic for both the Bloc Québecois and the Liberals. And my bet is this going to be good for the NDP.
First the Bloc…
Gilles Duceppe knows that the [...]