The one-sentence version: The sticker price of oil barely moved this week, but that calm is an illusion — the actual supply of oil and fuel is getting tighter, ships are being attacked, and governments are patching holes with unusual fixes. 1. The sticker price hid a roller-coaster Oil ended the week up about $2 …
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TODAY IN HISTORY | APRIL 13 1993: The B.C. government announces it will allow limited logging of the last major old-growth rainforest on Vancouver Island. At least half of Clayoquot Sound was opened to logging. This could be the biggest mistake we’ve ever allowed our government to make. Let’s not allow our past mistakes to …
FUTURE CANADA 18 Big Ideas to Supercharge Canada’s Economy By Claire Porter Robbins Canada is, by many metrics, a great country. But the recent trade war has underscored that it could benefit from some bold thinking to help propel it forward. Canada is at a crossroads. We have an increasingly complex relationship with our southern …
“A good business meets a demand, but it also has scarcity, network effects and market insulation.” Thanks, Seth Godin (genius business advisor)
You’re telling me that a few logs for shakes or fences would be worth the scientific value of a forest that has been growing uninterrupted since the last ice age 10,000 years ago. Some individuals growing over 1000 years old. Think of the opportunity for our understanding of forest evolution. The sheer diversity of biology …
What do cities and counties get in return for their public investment? Scholarly econometric studies on the impact of professional sports stadiums are almost unanimous in their conclusion that they do not promote employment or per capita income growth (see here and here). Despite the outsized role they play in U.S. cultural life and in …
