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Funny they didn't include food Inc. In there. That would have been the cherry on the cake as far as moonbattish ideas go.

Centre ice and a dvr fixes that. Just have to suffer through USA commentary explaining how the game works and basics. Im afraid burkey's tenure as gm is going to be determined by the Kessel trade. That was one heck of a gamble.

10-4.

I think your blaming the institution of a central bank rather than the bozos who run it. A properly run central bank provides a good mechanism for growth and provides stability and direction in the marketplace, which benefits everyone. The problem we have is there hasn't been a central banker since volcker with the stones to raise interest rates when they need raising.

Paying homage to the movie v for vendetta. They want to act out the last scene where the crowd marches in the street. Unfortunately, they have no crowd...

That's a generational thing from the eons of two Canadian teams. That however is slowly being chipped away. Now people have various teams to choose from and lots of people cheer for American teams (oh the horror). What I find interesting is how Boston has a following with the older crowd out here. I'm an oilers fan, but I am also a fan of teams with lots of potential and on the rise. I've been liking LA for the past few years and think they're dangerous, st. Louis if they could ever stay healthy, love Chicago, I like watching the leafs, used to like Washington, I don't like the jets because their fans are as big as idiots as roughrider fans, and if you go to sask at the end of football season you will know what I'm talking about. Despise Vancouver and their pest hockey, not a fan of Pitt, Detroit, ny, don't like sj because they choke.

And we've had abortion protests for years, how's that going? The western world in the shape its in is still way better off than other areas of the world and still has more opportunity. In the ME, there was no opportunity and an aristocracy that didn't invest/provife jobs/buy things/save in local banks.

My wealth comes straight out of the ground, is there a problem with that? Time for the bottom 80% to adapt like everyone else.

Especially in western Canada. Thank you Asian economic growth.

No it would be a real bad economic hangover. This is whats going on in the housing market regulations and all. My link My link Let the rates rise and let's get it over with.

Did you not read the parable of the servants and the talents I posted?

Do you know what kind of people they take for roughnecks? Anybody! You can be white trash and get a job out there, that's where they all go from my town.

So you'll go with the people who are inflating this bubble with a cheap money policy? Did carney and flaherty predict the USA housing bubble? We listen to them, it's 1980s Saskatchewan all over again.

Nice to see that you move the goal posts when it suits you. Everyone else calls it by income. The only parasites are at the occupy protests. You should enroll in some finance classes, they're free to retires people.

Oh really... My link So you want to go with the policy of cheap money that got us into this situation? Hiher interest rates are needed and as the saying goes buckleys tastes bad but it works. I'll go with the guy who called it.

We have jobs being created en masse in other parts of the world. There is a demand for production, why can't we make ourselves competitive and join in the party? Perhaps it's time to compete...

The cost of labor needs to drop. In the late 90's Canada had a lower cost of labor an the USA and was a beneficiary of that. Our workers need to be more flexible. It's pretty hard to find work in Atlantic Canada when there is no production going on there. Do you suggest that we build the second coming of the great pyramids in Atlantic Canada so that everyone there has high paying jobs?

Sask has an unemployment rate of 4%. Lots of jobs there. Alberta has billboards advertising rough neck jobs. Manitoba has jobs. That's part of it. The other part is workers having to accept the reality they are competing with Asia for manufacturing jobs.

So, they don't want the jobs bad enough. It's quite simple, go to where the jobs are, or it's unemployment, that's how it works. The top 1% has adjusted to economic realities, why can't everyone else.

Except that those contracts are written up when the CEO is hired. There is no way to know if the CEO is going to be a gem or a bust, only what they did in the past. if the CEO has a previous track record of raking in billions for the company, there is going to be competition to get him/her. Now the board must have looked at nadrelli's track record and made the contract accordingly, only to be horrified at what he was doing with the company.it's sort of being in a helpless position. The board gave him the chance to turn things around, he didn't and got fired. It's like signing pro athletes to contracts. Some end up being worth the contract, and some end up being nightmares. I bet new jersey is going through a conniption fit with he kovalchuk contract. Then there is the mark Hurd situation. Looking at hp's financials, he was worth every penny.

That's the terms of the contract they signed. Ask the ny rangers about redden or the habs about Gomez. Either honor the contract or it's off to court.

It's that they won't go to where the jobs are and won't adjust their compensation to economic reality. As a result we have u employment.

The problem you have is the contract offered to the CEO. Do you have any info on what happened to the board of directors? The board made the mistake, shareholders revolted and the CEO got canned. 500 million over 6 years is not much in the grand scheme of things with a company as large as home depot, to compensate for someone who's decisions are worth billions. What you will see in the future is that these big contracts might not get drawn up, and compensation will be different. Contract law is a pain.

Jobs out west, why don't they want them?

Yes there is, let them rise and let's take our medicine. it's like a hangover, it sucks for a while, but once the booze is purged from the system, the person feels better. The problem that I see is that people in general don't like how long it takes the market to correct and allocate resources. As a result they elect people who will try and manipulate the market so it benefits them in the short term, but is in fact unsustainable. Msj's Canadian housing bubble is a good example of this. As far as I'm concerned "winter's coming"' now it can be a short winter or a long winter. All this stimulus spending is going to make it a long winter. Had interest rates been allowed to rise, how many Canadians would be buying 400,000+ houses on 50,000 income with obscene interest payments right off the bat and no teaser rates.