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By: Ainsley Brown Will Buy American achieve its stated goals, and that is to stimulate the American economy through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act? Ask a Canadian? Oh that’s me. The latest reports indicate that the Buy American clause in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is currently under review. It may even be dropped from the bill. Ask
By: Ainsley Brown The US Senate has passed its version of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Bill – very good news – as the President comtinuses to use the bully pulpit to sell the stimulus package to the American people. Now begins the tough negotiations to reconcile the Senate and the House of Representatives versions of the Bill. Related Posts:‘Buy
By Ainsley Brown Will the Obama administration’s stimulus plan, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, pass in the Senate on Tuesday? It would seem that the plan will pass in the Senate given the protracted last minute deal between the Democratic lead majority and a few of the minority Republicans. Unfortunately for the Obama administration, this potential victory
By: Ainsley Brown The budget of the Conservative government of Canada passed last night, with the support of the official opposition Liberal Party. The budget contained Canada’s economic recovery/stimulus plan. The minority conservative government avoided losing power by making major concessions in order to gain Liberal support. They have even gone as far as to allow the official opposition to
The numbers are out from the Office for National Statistics and they are not pretty: the UK economy shrank by 1.5% in the last three months of 2008. This contraction was worse than expected and is even deeper than the last recession of the early 90’s. In fact it was the biggest fall in more than 28 years. The Chancellor of the Exchequer,