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Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Canadian banks as U.S. hostages?

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BMO Financial Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Blink twice if you're in danger, BMO. Donald Trump has said he wants to use "economic...
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Friday, March 14, 2025

Trump-proofing Canada means ditching MasterCard and Visa

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We're all busy doing our best to boycott U.S. products. I can't buy Special K cereal anymore, because it's made in the U.S. by K...
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Friday, February 28, 2025

What do you do with memecoins? Apparently you collect them, says the SEC

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I have no idea if memecoins like dogecoin and fartcoin should be legally defined as securities, and thus come under the purview of securitie...
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Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Ending the penny won't lead to more nickels

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Donald Trump has ordered the U.S. Mint to stop producing the penny because it is unprofitable, costing 3.69 cents to produce each one. In re...
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Tuesday, February 11, 2025

The end of El Salvador's bitcoin payments experiment

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Back in 2021, El Salvador became the first country in the world to require its citizens to use bitcoin for payments. Last month, four years...
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Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Trump claims US banks can't open in Canada—US banks disagree

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In what seems to be an effort to extort Canada for additional benefits, Donald Trump complained yesterday on social media that CANADA DOESN...
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Friday, January 24, 2025

Is it better to bribe Trump by purchasing his memecoin or his stock?

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Noah Smith writes a provocative article about memecoins as a novel mechanism for bribery payments. A foreign dignitary looking to gain infl...
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Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Canadian guilt, Russian oil

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We Canadians are overwhelmingly pro-Ukraine and anti-Putin, so when the CBC published an expose last week about "banned Russian oil...
Friday, January 17, 2025

Here’s why we tolerate fake check scams

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Source: Better Business Bureau The daily news is filled with personal stories about bad experiences with banks. Here’s a recent example . In...
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