California’s largest recycling company just closed it’s doors while pointing the finger directly at increased minimum wage and health costs. Chalk up another one up for “reality” versus ideology.

On Monday a change in the Chinese currency sent US stocks to their biggest decline of the year.  This is only the beginning of currency driven volatility in stocks, bonds and precious metals.  There’s a lot of money to be made and lost.

Can “we” afford the federal deficit and debt? It doesn’t really matter because it will be our children and their children who’ll be paying the federal and provincial debt along with our skyrocketing Old Age Security payments and extra healthcare costs as the boomers age.

Every time I hear another apologist for a human rights abusing, murdering dictator I need a “safe space.” What’s your trigger?

For most of the media it’s all Trump, all the time but that misses the bigger story. Whether we’re talking the Democratic Party in the US, Labour in the UK or the Yellow Vests in France the rise in extremism rivals anything on Trump’s scorecard.