by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 13, 2008 | Canada, Climate Change, Economy, employment, GTA Issues, Ontario, Toronto, USA
Canadians wake up! We are loosing jobs and manufacturing jobs. However, we have more and more box stores. We want cheaper goods and prices. How do you think that happens? We are enjoying the “fat” of life. A life of gluttony. However, there is a...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 9, 2008 | News
The Crash of 2008 crushes stocks in a wild last hour of trading. The Dow’s loss tops 7%; the S&P 500 drops 7.6%. Investors flee markets, skeptical that fixes to the credit crisis will work. General Motors shares collapse on fears it won’t survive. A...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 8, 2008 | Canada, Election, News, Politics
In September, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Canada would NOT fall into recession, but on October 6th, the TSE fell more than 1000 points and the Bank of Nova Scotia predicted “something worse than a recession” in 2009. Polls now show...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 4, 2008 | Economy, GTA Issues, GTA Religion, News, Religion, USA
By David Van Biema Has the so-called Prosperity gospel turned its followers into some of the most willing participants — and hence, victims — of the current financial crisis? That’s what a scholar of the fast-growing brand of Pentecostal Christianity believes....
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Sep 15, 2008 | Economy, News, USA, World
Sept. 15 (Bloomberg) — Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., the fourth-largest U.S. investment bank, succumbed to the subprime mortgage crisis it helped create in the biggest bankruptcy filing in history. The 158-year-old firm, which survived railroad bankruptcies of...