"Unthought Known" - by Mark McQueen
My Substack: "All the thoughts you never see...You are always thinking...Brain is wide, the brain is deep...Oh, are you sinking? Feel the path of every day...Which road you taking? Breathing hard and making hay...Yeah, this is living." lyrics by Pearl Jam
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As others flee, JP Morgan wades deeper into private credit (opens the original)
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A few months ago, you couldn’t turn on your fav business news channel without seeing an interview where the head of one of the larger private credit firms was outlining how they were staying clear of lending to the Innovation Economy (see prior posts “Private Credit gets sideswiped by the ‘SaaS-Pocalypse’” Feb 26-26 and “Are the wheels coming off the Private Credit sector?” Mar 11-26). Too much risk, you see. Al
There’s actually a pretty simple solution to the risk that AI is going to ‘kill all humans’ (opens the original)
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I generally don’t write the headlines for my Star columns, and I sure don’t believe that “There’s actually a pretty simple solution to the risk that AI is going to ‘kill all humans.’” What we do have, however, is some regulatory history about how the market can tackle bad behaviour. The Enron and WorldCom accounting scandals produced a useful package of legislation that put public company execu
Mark Carney threw a party and everyone came. What he does the morning after is key to our future (opens the original)
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Regular readers won’t be surprised where this off-cycle column for the Toronto Star winds up: a pitch for entrepreneurs to be given the chance to grow Canada out of the current multifaceted morass that been thrust upon us (see representative prior posts “Where’s the plan to fix Canada’s ‘grim’ business climate?” July 2-23, “Stillborn CIC another blow to Canada’s Innovation ecosystem” Dec. 22-23, “ <a h
Heads or tails, Canada can still “win” this trade war (opens the original)
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You try, you try, and you try again.Two years ago, Canada had the opportunity to get a bit more strategic in its industrial policy. U.S.-based Cleveland-Cliffs had bid $3.8B to acquire Hamilton’s Stelco, and the Mark Carney-advised Liberal government missed the chance to ask itself a fundamental question: “what’s in Canada’s best interest?” Donald Trump hadn’t returned to office yet, but the globalization worm was already turning. U.S. President Joe Biden had just come out <a href="https://www.w
Justin Trudeau haunts us still (opens the original)
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It’s election season in the United States, and a total of 320 appellate court seats are up for grabs. In 28 different U.S. States, elections are also being held that will land Judges on that city’s trial court — in the U.S., that’s the Court House “where most civil or criminal cases commence.”There are even lawn signs. For Judges. And you know what? Like anyone else running for high office, few of those seeking re-election want to be explaining to voters why it is that they’re out-of-step with t
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