Wednesday Night #1877
Thanks to Gerald Ratzer, we have the pleasure of welcoming Dr. Gavin Winston, new member of the Oxford & Cambridge Society, who hopes to work in research, but has a few hurdles to overcome if he...
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Trump administration: U.S. Economy 2017-18 Chapter II
Economic Policymaking in the Age of Trump By 2006 Nobel Laureate Edmund S. Phelps For decades, America has suffered from a long-run productivity slowdown that has sapped the economy of its former...
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Mexico
13 July Graciana del Castillo: A Fork in the Road for Mexico The issue worrying almost half the Mexican electorate is whether the fork that the country just took will put it on the dictatorial and...
View ArticleFirearms, gun control and politics /2018
Bloomberg Topics: Gun Control The Guardian: US gun control Mother Jones: Guns The NRA vs. America How the country’s biggest gun-rights group thwarts regulation and helps put military-grade weapons in...
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Natural resources: mining
Mineral Exploration and Industry News — Latest News in Mineral Exploration, Oil Mining and Other Industry Ecological Impact of Mining Technology, Minerals and War in the Democratic Republic of Congo...
View ArticleWednesday Night #1900
It’s far too hot to plan a mega celebration of Wednesday Night #1900. We can postpone it until Fall when/if the weather cools and everyone has flocked home. However, we must share that while going...
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Wednesday Night #1915
For all our friends who are celebrating American Thanksgiving on Thursday, we offer this judicious warning about table topics Safe Topics to Discuss This Holiday Season Stick to the weather. What could...
View ArticleWednesday Night #1917 with Brett House and Peter Berezin
Wednesday’s funeral services for George H. W. Bush (Bush #41) may dominate the news, but with the very welcome return of our dear friend, Brett House, Scotiabank’s VP & Deputy Chief Economist and...
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Venezuela 2014-2018
The Guardian view on Venezuela: a country in pain People are dying from shortages and state violence as Nicolás Maduro clings to power (25 April 2017) Venezuela’s Road to Disaster Is Littered With...
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Trump administration U.S. – China relations
See also: North Korea Trump & Trade 2018 China Seas /2 Simon Baptist, Chief economist, The Economist: China’s vice-premier, Liu He, is in the US this week, aiming to strike a deal with the US that...
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Venezuela 2019
As Maduro Digs In, His Aides Hunt for an Emergency Escape Route By Esteban Duarte, Eric Martin and Ilya Arkhipov (Bloomberg) The Venezuelan leader has held on for years in the face of protests, a...
View ArticleWednesday Night #1934
One might have hoped that the commemoration of the Rwandan Tutsi genocide that started on Sunday (Rwanda begins week of memorial events for genocide victims) and included in Canada, the searing...
View ArticleWednesday Night #1943
Discussions are always better than arguments These days it is often difficult to abide by the adage that An argument tries to prove who is right whereas a discussion tries to prove what is right....
View ArticleWednesday Night #1944
Thank you to all who made last week’s evening with Rick Barton such a stimulating success! Obviously, we did not get to cover any of the other topics proposed in the “Prologue” and now, of course,...
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Forests and Deforestation
Ethiopia breaks world record by planting 350 million trees in one day (Euronews) In a historic move for the east African nation, Ethiopia has this week announced a tree-planting initiative, via UN...
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Japan
See also APEC 2014 and China Seas 29 August Japan is a Trumpian paradise of low immigration rates. It’s also a dying country. As the country ages and older people die with no one to replace them,...
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Alternate (clean) energy/renewables /2
What are the differences of renewable and nonrenewable resources and what are some example[s] of them? (Quora) This can be hard to answer. From a physics point of view nothing is renewable, because...
View ArticleWednesday Night #1963
On the eve of Hallowe’en, the real world seems scarier, more full of goblins and evil spirits than ever – or at least than in recent memory. And, once again, the focus of last Wednesday is overridden...
View ArticleWednesday Night #1964
The past week has been a worthy lead-up to Tuesday, 5 November when we remembered -if not celebrated- Guy Fawkes Day and the failure of the Gunpowder Plot. Friday was John Bercow’s final day as Speaker...
View ArticleWednesday Night #1966
November 19 is the anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address 156 years ago, one of the most inspiring and beautifully crafted documents in American history. What a juxtaposition...
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