Posted by: aardvarkcola on: June 11, 2009
I’ve been reading older blog entries.
I really liked the I.O.U.S.A article from back in October on America’s national debt.
Canadian billionaire Kevin O’Leary, who knows something about money, said on Squeezeplay, the show he co-hosts with Amanda Lang,”They are going to have to tax migrating birds to pay this off.”
And, if you don’t know about [...]
Posted by: aardvarkcola on: December 7, 2008
Hijacked by my wife into three tortuous hours of following along behind her in a shopping mall- I actually fell asleep on a mall bench at one point – I had to notice how few people there were. The sales clerks outnumbered the customers by a good 5-1 margin. The halls were empty. The stores [...]
Posted by: aardvarkcola on: December 5, 2008
Michaëlle Jean, the immigrant Port-au-Prince born beauty and later tele-journalist who now holds Canada’s highest government office, has, as nature thankfully intended for her good looks and graces, no balls.
In fact, to verify such recognition of her official potential pin-up status, early on as Governor-General she declared, “I am hot!” to an Ottawa MP-press annual [...]
Posted by: aardvarkcola on: November 14, 2008
Haven’t posted for a while due to dilemma interuptions.
After evicting a tenant who hadn’t paid rent for three months, I discovered upon return to the house, by unexpectedly splashing through water going downstairs, that a metre of water in the drywalled basement meant I had an unexpected indoor swimming pool.
I hadn’t re-rented the place right away [...]
Posted by: aardvarkcola on: October 10, 2008
There is fear now in world financial markets.
American president George Bush has addressed his nation 20 times in the last month, providing reassurance. The stock market responds by going into free fall.
A “crash” on the markets is a 20 per cent loss in value of the stock market. The Dow Jones Industrial Index is down [...]
Posted by: aardvarkcola on: October 6, 2008
The mark of a good writer is one who can put you there, in the scene they are witnessing.
Diane Francis can do that. It’s good she is a business writer, likely the best known business writer in Canada. Good business writers are needed now.
Francis wrote this story, October 3, Wall Street Melting.
Diane Francis writes for [...]
Posted by: aardvarkcola on: October 5, 2008
Ben Hunt from Scratch Media has given his opinion on what are the world’s 10 best designed websites.
Apple leads the pack. He likes the boldness and the use of white space. To find out which are the ohter nine, here’s the link.
For more, here is a link to thebestdesigns.com
Posted by: aardvarkcola on: September 30, 2008
Republican presidential candidate John McCain suspended his campaign to work on the bailout package before Congress, but didn’t even manage to convince a single Arizona member of Congress from his own state to vote for it.
Arizona is represented in the U.S. federal legislature by eight members of the House of Representatives and two members [...]
Posted by: aardvarkcola on: September 30, 2008
Prime Minister Steven Harper’s announcement that a re-elected Conservative government would ban export of oil sands bitumen to countries with lower emission standards is getting reaction not only from Alberta, but from a rural municipality where a number of proposed upgrader projects would be located.
Here is the September 26 Conservative Party news release. Note the [...]
Posted by: aardvarkcola on: September 29, 2008
The Globe and Mail reports U.S. consumer spending is down. Expect that to go down further as the credit crunch tightens. A report from the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune says consumers will be more frugal this Christmas.
The credit crunch hitting main street is not a phenomenon isolated to the United States. Here is a [...]
