Having done more than its fair share to propagate the Harper government’s lies about tax leakage, as Jim Flaherty’s and Mark Carney’s fraudulent rationale to kill income trusts, the Globe and Mail is now doing its best at fulfilling item 2 of Goldman Sachs' wish list being executed by Goldman Sachs alumni Mark Carney, and that is to advise Canadians who are hungering for high yielding equity investments to "look south", and invest in the US market.
Perhaps they could follow this piece up with a piece on the $480 billion US Master Limited Partnership (MLP) market, since the MLP market is the exact parallel to the Canadian income trust market.
That would be quite the revelation for Globe’s readers, since our Minster of Finance, who doubles as the Minister of Fraud, told Canadians that the US had shut down their income trust equivalent market. Too bad no one in the press did a little deeper digging.
Which only goes to show. Don’t trust politicians. Don’t trust the Globe.
They are both too interested in "shaping the truth" rather than "reporting the truth".
Today’s article entitled “Want some dividend excitement? Look south” is the inevitable follow up story to these virulent gems of the past whose sole focus was to mislead Canadians about the false notion of tax leakage in order to kill income trusts:
Capitalism for slobs.
By Eric Reguly. March 2005 Report on Business
Income trusts are turning Canadian CEOs and investors into coupon-clipping couch potatoes
Income trusts are the glazed doughnuts of the financial world, and the investors who gorge on them are becoming fat and happy. Soon, they will become lethargic, their arteries and brains clogged with trust lard. And what's bad for investors is also bad for corporate Canada.
Trust lobbyists, that's enough of your fury
By Eric Reguly. December 2006 Report on Business
"Someone should encase income trust lobbyists in concrete and fling them off a bridge into deep water. On second thought, forget it; even that wouldn't stop the misguided creatures. Houdini-like, they would somehow break free and call for Jim Flaherty's head the moment their lips broke the surface. They are unstoppable and insatiable.
Still, the trusts lobbyists are lusting for blood, as if it's their god-given right to determine tax policy. They should be ignored."
Trust lobby had no hope against Flaherty
By Eric Reguly. February 1, 2007 Report on Business
If the expanding array of income trust lobby groups were to emboss their stationery, they might consider the image of Sisyphus, the symbol of hopeless labour. The lobbyists keep pushing the rock up to Jim Flaherty's door only to have it roll back upon them with great squishing sounds. Repeat process, repeatedly.
There’s no arguing with the man (Flaherty), and the trust’s disjointed effort only made it easier for him to say no
Of all the venomous comments that the Globe has falsely advanced about income trusts, the worst one of all, wasn't even about income trusts. It was the admonishment that "they should be ignored".
I can't think of a more ignorant and intolerant piece of advice to be handed out in a newspaper, than to ignore the other side of an argument.
What's next? Book burning?
At the Globe and Mail, apparently ignorance is bliss. Both in terms of their readers and certainly amongst the news staff.
That's probably why their investment advice of today and their readership of tomorrow is headed the same direction: ”Look south.”
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Saturday, February 16, 2008
The schizophrenic Globe and Mail
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5 comments:
Isn`t this unreal--instead of being Canadian coupon clipping old farts , we are moving our old fartness & our money to the US where we can clip till our hearts content.
Mr Flaherty must have eaten some bad lawyer feed to believe that he was bringing us in-line withe US markets--did he not think to check that Canadian investors are not idiots--some of us may be old , but that does not make us stupid.
If the very fact that he said the TFP would bring us in-line with other jurisdictions is untrue , then it follows that the rest of the TFP justification was bogus as well.
See Jimmy , we are not as dumb as you had thought.
Mike.
PS--to JIm , thanks for spending the cupboard bare just to prevent the opposition parties from making election promises that would be realistic--what a sadistic thing to do---obviously , the citizens mean nothing to you---I guess you are only looking out for number one--that number one is Stephen Harper.
Even the pompous idiot known as Eric Reguly admitted his utter stupidity on the ramifications of this ill conceived double taxation of trusts.
Too bad he didn't have the moral rectitude and inner fibre of integrity to put his mea culpa in print.
No wonder they call it the ROB.
Here is the self righteous pompous joker journalist in person (ie. Reguly, not Flaherty):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
wdZbzpAWZ1M
Personally, I couldn't stomach any more of Reguly's or the Globe's one-sided, politically-motivated, self-induced vacuity ever since late 2006, and so discontinued my subscription.
Every time I saw another so-called opinion piece/attack on income trusts, my innards churned in disgust.
That seems to be a regular occurrence when it comes to anything under the CTV-Globe Media banner.
I get the same feeling when hearing CON hack Mike Duffy speak.
Diane, Jim and Steve,Derek,Amanda,
Why won‚t the Canadian media investigate the falsehoods and
misrepresentations told by the Minister of Finance to a committee of
Parliament? Was the Minister in contempt of Parliament?
Is Diane Francis the only accountable and transparent business writer that
begs the question:
"Prove the case or drop the tax"
PS: Derek, Amanda, John and Bill,
"DO YOUR HOMEWORK, THAT IS LONG, LONG OVERDUE"
Also for your info, Citigroup yesterday announced that two of its hedge
funds are not paying out to their customers that now want their money back
and the Globe now wants us to invest down south.
Derek; you go ahead and invest down south. You belong down there with the
sub-prime mess, etc. You'd fit right in.
Doug,
A former conservative
concur with Doug except for his statement about "falsehoods and misrepresentations". It should read "OUTRIGHT LIES" This comes from a government that has lost all sense of reality. There is no openness, honesty, integrity, accountability or even a sense of fairness. Lets be blunt. This government smells of corruption that blows the doors off anything the Liberals may have ever done.
Bruce
Another former conservative.
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