Does the federal government have a debt problem?
No. See graph below. Canada is plotted in pink. In fact we have one of lowest central government debt to GDP ratios in the OECD.
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- What's New: Thinking About Alternatives: Their Crisis and Ours December 22, 2009Audio by Sam Gindin - part of the Parkland Fall 2009 Conference: The strategic question we now face might be restated as follows. All alternatives must begin with people’s needs, but can we also structure our responses so they strengthen the capacity of the working class to act independently of the logic of capitalism, while also restricting to at least some […]
- Bullet: Honduras: The Coup That Never Happened December 22, 2009What strikes a visitor to the Honduran capital most immediately in this moment is the degree to which the social and political conflict that has erupted since the golpe de estado (coup d'etat) on June 28th is actually written on the walls, the fences, the rockfaces, bridges, errant bits of siding, abandoned buildings, and even the concrete upon which on […]
- Bullet: Shambles in Copenhagen December 21, 2009The United Nations conference to address climate change in Copenhagen over the last week has illustrated several crucial features about the contemporary political setting, as Obama completes a year in power in the United States, NATO plots a military surge into the war setting spanning Palestine to Afghanistan and an economic recovery staggers along.
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