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This isn't just a Liberal thing. It's a thing for dominant parties everywhere. Be that Ontario or British Tories. Heck, the Republicans in the US went from pushing free trade in the 80s and 90s to imposing tariffs in three decades. This is the nature of big tent parties. The swim with the...

Mostly this thread. Honestly don't get it. In real life, who likes the friend or relative that constantly talks about politics? And have they ever succeeded in convincing you to change your vote? Usually a serious turn off from that political brand for me. Like who wants to vote the same...

Somehow I doubt the conservatives lauding Martin voted for him over Harper. The same goes for the other side. O'Toole was a nice moderate conservative. Liberals who are appalled at Poilievre should remember they got PP because they passed up O'Toole for Trudeau's most disastrous term.

The base isn't relevant here. What matters is the general voting public. And the LPC adapts to public concerns. That's what keeps them in power. Conservatives are, understandably, frustrated with this. But that's how the game is played. Voters can change their minds on issues and...

Carney is easy. It's hard for some to get this. But with Carney in charge the average person doesn't have to think about politics. They trust that shit is getting done. Maybe it's not perfect. Or what they always want. But something, somewhere, is getting done. Some people may find that...

It's actually scary looking at futures in to September. The market is in full denial this lasts. I wonder when paper and reality converge. Or when the Iranian economy collapses.

To a point. Good dividends. Poor growth. Typical of sunsetting sectors no matter how long that sunset is. I wouldn't overweight oil and gas especially after this war. There's a reason that even now so many O&G execs are refusing to drill more. They can trust that a peace deal and their...

It's not a perfect hedge. Obviously the refinery still has to pay for crude. What it was meant to be was reduce the premium and wild swings Delta paid for Jet fuel specifically. And I believe it meets something like 40-50% of their domestic fuel requirements...

He had quite a successful career. And was appointed as CEO of Amtrak later, specifically to bring his outside the box thinking. https://www.railjournal.com/regions/north-america/amtrak-appoints-airline-executive-as-new-ceo/

Delta is uniquely safe. They own a refinery. They bought it years ago, specifically to hedge against higher fuel prices for their main business.

To quote Carlos Ghosn, former CEO of Nissan-Renault, "A hybrid is like a Mermaid. When you want a fish, you get a woman. And when you want a woman, you get a fish." The case for hybrids was much stronger when batteries were $1000/kWh 15 years ago. Now that batteries are $100/kWh (and...

I looked up bios on Wikipedia. In the time that PP did his Bachelor's, Carney finished his Master's and PhD from Oxford. Like I said, if two people I personally knew had this kind of an exchange, I would think one of them a clown and it probably wouldn't be the guy who did the PhD.

Somebody clearly leaked the report from the DND Sharepoint. And they may well have only leaked the juicy parts. But people in uniform do have access. There's nothing stopping people from educating themselves at the source.

It's kinda hilarious in its brazenness. I'll give them that. But it's also kinda hard to take somebody seriously who resorts to this kind of attack. Imagine somebody saying this about somebody you knew personally. You'd think that person a clown.

YoY mostly till 28 Feb mostly driven by new incentives. But the incentives didn't change from Feb to March. Guess what did?

He undoubtedly has an interest in the topic. But you've yet to provide evidence that it dictated policies he put out as Governor of the Bank of England and that these policies specifically impacted the UK substantially. Going to conferences and talking doesn't crash the economy.

How dare you actually read the report and form a reasonable nuanced opinion?

The guy was hired by two Conservative governments in two G7 countries to lead both of them during times of crisis. He was the first non-Brit to lead the BoE in centuries. If he's supposedly that bad, what does it say about the politicians who hired him?

Again. Central banks don't determine energy policy. And his advocacy for climate finance was after his time as Governor of BoE. Notably setting up GFANZ at COP 26 in Glasgow in November 2021. Again, a reminder, he departed the Bank of England in March 2020. I am not a banker. But I did...

Genuinely curious what exact policies you think he should have implemented as BoE Governor but failed to do.