Here is the statement by the Canadian government:

“The Canadian Embassy and our Consulates General regularly contact those involved in all of the Presidential campaigns and, periodically, report on these contacts to interested officials. In the recent report produced by the Consulate General in Chicago, there was no intention to convey, in any way, that Senator Obama and his campaign team were taking a different position in public from views expressed in private, including about NAFTA.”
“We deeply regret any inference that may have been drawn to that effect,” the statement says.

Posted at March 3, 2008 7:55 PM in response to Is Barack Learning Foreign Policy?

I think the fundamental problem is the Economics which has been taught and practised over the last 30 years in this country. This has resulted in the inequality of wealth away from "Physical Economic" activity to the investment model, which seems to create wealth for people just because they have money.
Financial "Instruments", "Derivatives" and "Products" are really the problem as we seem to create wealth basically out of no real economic activity. Till we do not get back to real economics where wealth can only be equated with "Physical Products", there is no real hope for people doing actual work.
But the problem created over the last three decades is that our best minds have been now conditioned into this "easy" way of becoming wealthy and not the science and technology that is needed to better this world. Hence the rest of the world will take over the leadership as their people are now much more knowledeable and advanced on the "real world" ...

Posted at December 16, 2007 7:36 PM in response to Greenspan Spins the Housing Bubble

" ... from 1998 to 2003, approximately 98% of net global economic growth occurred in the United States..."

I think this is an absurd statement, conconcted on what basis, I would like to know?

Posted at December 16, 2007 1:58 PM in response to Too True

I think the fundamental problem is the Economics which has been taught and practised over the last 30 years in this country. This has resulted in the inequality of wealth away from "Physical Economic" activity to the investment model, which seems to create wealth for people just because they have money.
Financial "Instruments", "Derivatives" and "Products" are really the problem as we seem to create wealth basically out of no real economic activity. Till we do not get back to real economics where wealth can only be equated with "Physical Products", there is no real hope for people doing actual work.
But the problem created over the last three decades is that our best minds have been now conditioned into this "easy" way of becoming wealthy and not the science and technology that is needed to better this world. Hence the rest of the world will take over the leadership as their people are now much more knowledeable and advanced on the "real world" ...

Posted at December 13, 2007 8:05 PM in response to Boy, Have We Got an Inequality Problem

I think the fundamental problem is the Economics which has been taught and practised over the last 30 years in this country. This has resulted in the inequality of wealth away from "Physical Economic" activity to the investment model, which seems to create wealth for people just because they have money.
Financial "Instruments", "Derivatives" and "Products" are really the problem as we seem to create wealth basically out of no real economic activity. Till we do not get back to real economics where wealth can only be equated with "Physical Products", there is no real hope for people doing actual work.
But the problem created over the last three decades is that our best minds have been now conditioned into this "easy" way of becoming wealthy and not the science and technology that is needed to better this world. Hence the rest of the world will take over the leadership as their people are now much more knowledeable and advanced on the "real world" ...

Posted at December 13, 2007 8:05 PM in response to Boy, Have We Got an Inequality Problem

H1 jobs in tech are usually at 40K/yr or more. Hence these are "good jobs". But recently a levy of $2400 is being put on each H1 application. But this still does not seem to deter the employers ...

Posted at November 25, 2007 5:59 PM in response to Economic Progress: Where Did the Good Jobs Go?

I do not think any illegals are getting the "good jobs". H1 Visas are accounting for them or they are "offshored".

Posted at November 25, 2007 5:33 PM in response to Economic Progress: Where Did the Good Jobs Go?

Depend on where the 2-Bedroom apartment is at, New York City or Des Moines, IA ...!!

Posted at November 25, 2007 5:29 PM in response to Economic Progress: Where Did the Good Jobs Go?

That is because he lives in Washington. It seems Washington and the rest of America have become two different worlds altogether ...

Posted at October 24, 2007 9:46 PM in response to Clinton and Giuliani Are Way Out Front in New Poll

BTW Yoo is Prof at UC Berkeley now ...

Posted at September 11, 2007 7:54 PM in response to Savage v. Goldsmith: Is presidential power a one-way ratchet? Has Cheney succeeded?