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Professor of Economics, Vancouver School of Economics

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Stuart Fairchild! 加油 👏 👏 👏 🇹🇼 🇹🇼 🇹🇼

07.03.2026 07:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Errrrr Dominicana, of course.

Loved that 5-3 5-3 5-3 inning from Manny and Vladdy on D.

And O'Neil Cruz moonshot great too.

Now on to 🇹🇼 and 🇨🇿.

加油 👏👏👏

07.03.2026 07:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Jeff Rubin exoneration INCOMING

07.03.2026 07:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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La República Dominica has a jonrón jacket!

Gotta be a Vlad idea, yeah?

07.03.2026 06:21 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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The CBC has this alert on its front news page.
Top right, permanently posted.
cbchelp.cbc.ca/hc/en-ca/art...

04.03.2026 23:59 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Here's a tip from @andypinsent.bsky.social: a CBC page with tips on how to tell if it is a real CBC story and what to do with fake ones.

cbchelp.cbc.ca/hc/en-ca/art...

bsky.app/profile/andy...

04.03.2026 23:52 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1

Thanks that is very helpful.

04.03.2026 23:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The citizen found his way to that page from a facebook link. He wrote me because he thought the endorsement might not be real. He was indeed correct.

(If you or your relative has never clicked on a bad link, congratulations. Let's not judge. My relatives have. And yes I have too.)

04.03.2026 23:32 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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Ah jeez. A citizen just called my office saying there is a fake website set up to look like a CBC News story.

The fake story uses my name and image (along with new Telus CEO Victor Dodig) to endorse some sleazy AI investing product.

In March of the year 2026, is there really anything I can do?

04.03.2026 23:31 👍 29 🔁 20 💬 6 📌 0

oh nooooo don't say bad things about NFTs

04.03.2026 20:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Haha yeah. But I guess I meant "makes me seem trustworthy". This is John Kerry "for it before I was against it" territory. Just take a stand and stick to it, man.

04.03.2026 03:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I won't share my views on foreign policy but saying you "regret" a position you took like 2 days ago seems really weak as a leadership thing.

Like, if I steal your hat but then say "I regret that I stole your hat" as I walk away wearing your hat, I don't think that really does the trick.

04.03.2026 02:50 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Real-time YMPE Estimation Real-time Estimation for the Year’s Maximum Pensionable Earnings (YMPE) Your early warning system for next year's CPP numbers Estimate of the maximum employee and employer portion of CPP contributions...

oooh a website devoted to YMPE forecasting. Nice.

ympe.ca

cc @tammyschirle.bsky.social

04.03.2026 02:10 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Exogenous what??? What can I instrument that for.....🤔

04.03.2026 01:59 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Also, 加油 👏👏👏. 台灣 #1. Cheering for Yu Chang, there.

04.03.2026 01:40 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So excited for the WBC. Just watched some Team RD highlights and they are gonna be so fun to watch. Machado Tatis Guerrero Soto wow.

Team Canada's offence and defence is looking good; much better than 2023.. Little worried about the hurlers though.....

Love J Naylor as the captain. He's great.

04.03.2026 01:38 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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a man in a hooded jacket is surrounded by a group of people . ALT: a man in a hooded jacket is surrounded by a group of people .
03.03.2026 06:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wordle 1,717 1/6*

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

03.03.2026 06:09 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

"Slam dunk" until people realize their kids will go to school in the dark.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permane...

03.03.2026 01:37 👍 39 🔁 10 💬 11 📌 6

...and maybe we like the info aggregation aspect of insider trading (the info gets out and that might be good!) don't you have any concerns with *manipulable* markets with insider trading? E.g. 'market in bombing a particular city' and then surprise surprise it gets bombed. That seems....bad.

02.03.2026 19:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Hmm. I don't see anything in there about insider trading. E.g. all the goofy stuff from the current White House (time of press briefing; Iran bombing) where it looks like insiders made millions. Any concerns about that?

02.03.2026 19:38 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

the X-axis is $ billions not %

27.02.2026 15:29 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It shows the change in AB revenue if AB were to adopt the tax system of each indicated province. Since all provs already have fed taxes (including GST) the change in AB revenue for Federal taxes is zero.

27.02.2026 14:14 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

That was when I typed "rhe" in the post above. Dang, now it is 0.000002%.

27.02.2026 05:17 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Or an autocorrect that knows that when I type "rhe" I mean "the" 99.999999% of the time.

27.02.2026 04:12 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Looked at this from the BC perspective, I note that this analysis suggests BC has the 2nd lowest tax burden of all the provinces.

27.02.2026 01:06 👍 17 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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Looks ready to bloom in a week or so. Seems like this is Davidii Viburnum?

26.02.2026 22:14 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The 2026 edition of Canada's premier labour economics conference is in Montreal on April 17-18.

Don't miss your chance to be part of it!

Early bird registration deadline is next Thursday (March 5). $200 regular and $90 students.

Conference program 👉 stonecentre.economics.ubc.ca/news-and-eve...

26.02.2026 15:27 👍 2 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
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"Paying the bond traders" with… - Hotel Pacifico - Apple Podcasts Podcast Episode · Hotel Pacifico · February 25 · 1h 19m

I'm talking BC budget on this week's Hotel Pacifico podcast from @airquotesmedia.bsky.social with @bcmikemcd.bsky.social and Geoff Meggs.

Listen here:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

pocketcasts.com/podcast/hote...

open.spotify.com/episode/7EJz...

Or watch:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y04A...

25.02.2026 23:54 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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"Paying the bond traders" with… - Hotel Pacifico - Apple Podcasts Podcast Episode · Hotel Pacifico · February 25 · 1h 19m

I'm talking BC budget on this week's Hotel Pacifico podcast from @airquotesmedia.bsky.social with @bcmikemcd.bsky.social and Geoff Meggs.

Listen here:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

pocketcasts.com/podcast/hote...

open.spotify.com/episode/7EJz...

Or watch:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y04A...

25.02.2026 23:54 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0