Posts in Economics
Phone-y progress

Boy, I hate to seem like a malcontent. And I know the question is annoying. But at a certain point you have to ask "Are we there yet?" For instance, I keep seeing stories about how great, or late, or lame Apple's new iOS 7 will be although apparently we have to wait all the way until fall for it. As various people have said "Patience? How long's that gonna take?" Click here to read the rest.

An insult to salesmen and ideologues

On Wednesday Globe and Mail arch-pundit Jeffrey Simpson called the Harper administration "a government of salesmen, not statesmen" who "don't let facts stand in the way of the pitch" because they've replaced good old broad-minded Red Toryism with a "narrower ideology". This deft rendering of the conventional wisdom managed, remarkably, to insult both salesman and ideologues while being exactly backwards. Click here to read the rest.