June 13th 2008 — Text — Leave a Comment
Hate pervades Calgary.
Or at least compared to the national average. So says Statistics Canada in a new report.
They provided some facts on the state of hate and violence in Canada:
Among the 220 hate crimes reported by police to be motivated by religion, offences against the Jewish faith were the most common, accounting for [...]
April 11th 2008 — Text — Leave a Comment
Really neat post about transtemporal economics at Agoraphilia. What would trade through time look like? Glen Whitman looks at migration and time travel:
If wages are expected to be higher in the future, then once the cost of time travel falls low enough, we can expect people to start migrating in large numbers into the future [...]
January 17th 2008 — Link — Leave a Comment
Yikes.
The largest bank in the US has announced record net losses of almost $10bn, mainly stemming from its involvement in the high-interest, or “sub-prime,” mortgage crisis that has shaken financial institutions around the world. Citigroup said that 4,200 staff would lose their jobs after the bank lost more than $18bn in mortgage-related loans… The [...]