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This thread is for the discussion of the language, culture, travel, daily life, etc. of Japan. Let's tark at randam in Japanese and English. Take it easy!
Canada really only has four business. It sells Oil, recently below cost for as little as $11 a barrel, it sells rocks and trees (not selling well now, except gold), It has 5 bloated bureaucratic banks (globally exposed, over-expanded and in trouble) and it launders huge piles of money through real estate -- that is finally coming to an end. Not surprisingly the country is in the tank.
One example of how bad things have become, in 1998 over 30% of the TSE public companies were technology firms, today it is less than 1/2%.
According to data from the Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy Canada, insolvencies climbed to 11,641 in October, a 9.2% rise compared to the year prior. Even more alarming, month over month this rise was up a staggering and somewhat inexplicable 16% this October.
