Archive for March 18th, 2007
SES on Quebec Election
18 March 2007Nik Nanos is probably the best pollster in Canada right now. He has the Liberals at 25.8%, the PQ at 24.3% and the ADQ at 15%; undecided was 23.9%. Here is his qualitative take on the current Quebec election polling results, and what’s to come:
Charest does well on most leadership measures. Dumont runs [...]
NYC is not Toronto
18 March 2007This is not a novel point, if you’ve ever had the luxury to suffer with a stint at a Wall Street-type firm in New York City. This came to mind yesterday as I took flak from a blogger who shields his/her identity but claims to be a New York-based “Vice-President at a middle market [...]
Watercloset iPod adapter
18 March 2007I doubt that even this iPod home improvement device can save the resale home market as the subprime guys close their online application sites….
Thx Craig.
MRM
More subprime fallout at HSBC
18 March 2007If you watched Don Coxe of Harris Inv. Mgmt on BNN on Thursday evening (“Simon” was on his best behaviour as a co-host btw, knowing that Coxe could crush him – both verbally and intellectually – in a millisecond), you’d have thought that former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan’s concerns about the subprime debacle were illfounded. [...]