Monthly Archives for September 2012
$46 Million Ponzi Scheme
Dennis Morice, Milowe Brost, and Gary Sorenson are three men from Calgary who had “perpetrated a deliberately complex, co-ordinated, far-reaching and massive – almost $46-million – fraudulent investment scheme.” Their companies, The Institute for Financial Learning Group of Cos. Inc. … Continue reading
Tobin
According to Germany’s Finance Ministry, Berlin and Paris have jointly and successfully appealed to the Eurpean Union’s executive for the preparation of a tax on all financial transactions. Once this appeal is implemented, there will be a 0.1% tax … Continue reading
Lost Hope for Canadian Auto-Industry
New Canadian labour contracts secured by the Detroit Three automakers this week are unlikely to lower costs enough to persuade the industry to make fresh investments in the country and reverse a decade-long contraction. The Canadian automaker industry has … Continue reading
Marketing Ingenuity or Social Desperation?
Regardless of whether or not you are familiar with marketing schemes mediated by social media, you must have undoubtedly encountered unnerving advertisements during your online browsing experience that made you wonder “how did they know?” Consumer targeted ads are now … Continue reading
First Blog Entry!
Awesome, this is my first blog entry for the UBC Blog and I’ll start it off by saying hello to all my fellow 101 Commies! Took forever to get this thing up and running with all the Vista/Connect errors but … Continue reading