Posts Tagged ‘ canada ’

Is There No Escape From The U.S. Government?

Mar 27th, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Politics
The Feds have been shutting down websites again. The Canadian gambling site bodog.com thought it had the whole thing figured out. If you stay in Canada, use Canadian servers, block anyone inside U.S. territory from using the site and make sure that you don't use any American vendors for anything -- ...read more

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First We Conquer Iceland

Mar 7th, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, International, Macro Economics, Politics
The law of unintended consequences states that actions, especially governmental ones, always have unintended and unpredictable effects. These unanticipated effects can be far more powerful than the planned ones. Thus, economists often use this law as a warning to politicians that policies commonly 'achieve' the opposite of their intentions. For ...read more

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Posted in Featured, International, Macro Economics, Politics | 3 comments


Fun with Customs and Border Guards in the U.S. and Canada

Jul 25th, 2011 | By | Category: International, Politics
"Sir, you can go ahead and button your shirt back up," said the TSA agent. We'd only been trying to help. We were passing through Houston on our way from Acapulco to the Agora Financial Symposium in Vancouver. We'd opted out of the Rapiscan irradiation machine and so had to be felt ...read more

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Update on Canada Oil Sands, Part I

Aug 24th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Oil
Recently, I had the unique opportunity to tour two different oil sands operations near Fort McMurray, in northern Alberta. I saw a massive open-pit oil sands mine, and the associated reclamation effort, operated by Syncrude Canada Ltd. I also visited an in situ oil sands recovery project called Surmont, operated ...read more

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