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AEI Subprime VI: Complete Annotated Transcript by Housing Doom on Nov 16, 20091:36:34 … This crisis was caused by massive government subsidies to purchase homes by people who couldn’t really afford them. So what does Congress do? They pass an $8,000 tax credit for people who can’t really afford to buy a hom...

AEI Subprime VI: Panel Discussion by Housing Doom on Nov 3, 2009So, you know, there’s nothing for safety and soundness like a comfortable oligopoly. We might think about that and … we’re planning, for those of you who are interested, a conference, coming up in a few months, contrasting the Canad...

SHOCK!HORROR!NEXT! CBC Radio News Abducted by Aliens by Housing Doom on Oct 26, 2009… or in the Mothership’s own words: Welcome to the new World Report When I hit "sleep" on the old clock radio for 7AM ADT I got what sounded like a blast of FOX as rendered by a gang of interns from Oral Roberts U.  It’...

My Halifax by Housing Doom on Oct 9, 2009As Doomers can imagine, I’ve got extremely serious reservations about this story,1 but for the purposes of the present project those are going to be laid aside. Google Street View has just come online in Halifax, and I’m very pleased with...

Instant Perfection — All Aboard for 666 by Housing Doom on Sep 30, 2009Starbucks promises I won’t be able to tell the difference.  Yeah, from the stuff I was swilling the last time I was on The Ocean. Our crack team of Doomish researchers has already solved the riddle of how these top-notch marketing geniuses...

Nova Scotia’s New Empty Apology Act by Housing Doom on Sep 16, 2009The Apology Act, which comes into effect Oct. 1, broadly defines an apology and states that it can’t be used as evidence in legal proceedings to establish fault or liability. - CBC1 As usual, there is rather more than meets the eye here, and it...

Crack of Doom: Bernanke’s Secret Weapon — Canada by Housing Doom on Sep 14, 20091:36:22 I think the idea was to facilitate industry consolidation. … Charlie’s not here, but an interesting factoid is, Chairman Bernanke’s 2nd most cited paper on the Great Depression is actually one that compares the business cycl...

price discovery — Ethics: C$200 by Housing Doom on Sep 4, 2009He said he had never played an active role in the companies, "so it was hardly something that was top of mind." - CBC report1 on Canada’s Minister of National Defence — "Ethics commissioner Mary Dawson called the issue a ̵...

Less Educated Canucks Losing Sleep Over Economy! by Housing Doom on Aug 17, 2009The poll suggests the less education a person has, the more they toss and turn at night, fretting over their financial future. // About 33 per cent of those without a university degree report losing sleep this way. [1] ‘Tis the (silly) season.&...

Aleynikov Affair Jumps the Shark: FBI Protecting US from WHAT? by Housing Doom on Aug 12, 2009“Any comment in those files can be pursued by the gentleman’s attorney about what was intended, what it means,” said Allan Grody, president of the New York-based risk management consultancy Financial InterGroup and a former professo...