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It’s Hard to Budge It

Election fever is hitting Ottawa, with MP’s frantically running about attempting to get their re-election offices in place, and their Anti-[NDP,Liberal,Green,Tory,Bloc] posters printed, and making sure that they have enough chap stick to kiss all the babies they can (and then steal their lollypops). Living in Ottawa gives you a unique vantage point on the Election, because being a Civil Servant I also get to see what happens to the inner workings of the Government at election time (I believe in Newfoundland that would call it a Shite Storm, but I could be wrong). It’s all fun and games here, and will make for plenty of fodder for the Media’s Big Guns too.

More concerns in Japan about Radioactive fall out, and more fall out of another kind in the Middle East continues to drive up prices at the Gas Pump, which should make the Inflation numbers for this month interesting, but there are economic pundits who are saying that thanks to a spring election, there may not be an interest rate change until well into the summer. I am not so sure I buy that one, but they might be right too.

Best quote from the Post Budget fracas? Craig Oliver talking on Canada AM, commenting on the fact that the Finance Minister didn’t placate the NDP’s demands with this budget and he stated, “… they were unable to buy Jack off…”, um, hmmm…. where was the censor?

Staying more on a personal finance theme this week, I wrote about:

Bonds are not a Safe Haven Right Now, but don’t just listen to me, I also quoted our favorite financial media pundit Preet as well.

I did brag a little with Bell sent me a cheque for $67.41 but Michael James quipped that I most likely blew all of it and then some going out and celebrating, but I didn’t, I still had money left over to pay for parking the next day.

I gave a cursory review in Budget 2011 Canada (Part 1), since this budget is simply a plank in the Tory reelection campaign, after all opposition parties have said they will vote it down.

Given the amount of Internet Tom Foolery in terms of security breaches Security for Lent was a very valid topic. It would be a very good idea to change your passwords more than once in a Blue Moon.

From the Blogosphere

With the budget and impending election most of the financial bloggers had a fun time discussing various parts of the proposed budget and where it might lead us. I think the balanced budget part is a great idea, just wish it was sooner:

Carnivals this Week

I also had some submissions accepted to various carnivals, so go have a read of these as well:

Other Bookkeeping

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