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So, where were we? Ah, yes, our “fundamental macroeconomic external imbalance”.
If a nation’s savings exceeds its investment, as ours obviously does, the country has “excess savings”, which it then exports to other countries to fund their investment ...
DATE: Feb 07, 2019
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Robert Stubbs
Sadly, Mr and Mrs Bermuda remain stranded, as the Department of Public Transportation does not yet appear to have presented a workable set of bus rosters to the bus operators.
I read with great astonishment Chris Furbert’s statement that “we are so m...
DATE: Feb 06, 2019
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Cory Booker, the Democratic senator from New Jersey, who declared his intention to run for president last week, gave an interview on Monday morning with CBS. One particular remark caught my attention. “We don’t need a president that’s going to put do...
DATE: Feb 06, 2019
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Jennifer Rubin
On October 8, 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations body dedicated to providing the world with an objective and scientific view of climate change, issued a stark warning to us all. The planet is warming at a greater ra...
DATE: Feb 05, 2019
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Joe Biden has never been coy about his desire to be president, even as he has wavered about whether he will actually make a third run for the Oval Office. But as the former vice-president nears a decision, he is apparently homing in on the worst poss...
DATE: Feb 05, 2019
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Paul Waldman
When I was invited to speak to the Probus Club last week, I was pleased that I was able to choose the topic for the day. It was very tempting to speak about my love for sport and how it is so important to building strong communities and providing opp...
DATE: Feb 04, 2019
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Michael Dunkley
“In Bermuda there is a natural inclination to make everything acrimonious and vile. I do not believe we have to be cantankerous to work through comprehensive immigration reform.”
— Minister of National Security Wayne Caines, January 16, 2019
It is ...
DATE: Feb 01, 2019
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The public can clearly see that this government is bereft of ideas to stimulate the Bermuda economy. All we are hearing about is all the wonderful ways the Progressive Labour Party thinks it can tax us into prosperity. What exactly is the plan to gro...
DATE: Feb 01, 2019
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While our politicians spent the new year attempting to mitigate the embarrassment of their longstanding, adamant denials of Bermuda’s indubitable status as a tax haven being now well and truly exposed as a farce, much of the rest of the island were a...
DATE: Jan 31, 2019
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Robert Stubbs
When Bernard Demczuk does diversity and cultural awareness training with police, he gives a history lesson. Call it: why black people distrust police.
He uses a timeline, starting with the role of slave catchers in the United States in 1706 to police...
DATE: Jan 30, 2019
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