Jim Stanford
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Add 'Dutch Disease' to climate change as real phenomena denied by Stephen Harper's neo-Conmen
| May 19, 2012The curious case of the missing economic recovery
Join Lieutenant Stanfordo (CAW Economist Jim Stanford) as he attempts to find out what has actually happened to Canada's supposed economic recovery. In The Curious Case of the Missing Recovery, Stanfordo searches far and wide for answers to a mystery that continues to baffle hard-working Canadians. How can the federal government and Bank of Canada proclaim an economic recovery when hundreds of thousands of workers are still jobless, and millions are still reeling from one of the worst downturns since the Great Depression?
Jim Stanford as this week's Not Rex: Financial literacy for bankers
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty wants to launch a new program of “financial literacy” for Canadians, on the theory that if we were more “aware” of the dangers of sophisticated financial products we might avoid the next financial meltdown. But wait a minute: it was the bankers and brokers, not Mom and Pop investors, who caused the last meltdown. Shouldn’t they be the ones who go to financial literacy classes??? Join our teacher, Mrs. Credit D. Fault, as she instructs the financier set in some of the basic principles of sound finance.