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Apr. 30, 2010 / Gordon Price

Scarier than the PNE Rollercoaster

Ride the Vancouver condo market – and hold on!…
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Apr. 26, 2010 / Gordon Price

“The most interesting story I’ve ever found”

There has been an extraordinary amount of good writing about the GFC – as the Australians term the ‘Global Financial…
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Apr. 19, 2010 / Gordon Price

Portland comes to Dallas

It was a very Portland kind of thing to do in an inner Dallas neighbourhood: Citizens taking their streets back? …
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Apr. 10, 2010 / Gordon Price

Betting against the American Dream

Here’s a recommendation outside the usual Price Tags orbit – but this broadcast on National Public Radio in the States is…
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Dec. 23, 2009 / Gordon Price

Nopenhagen

No targets, no deadlines, no deal. Copenhagen was at best a disappointment, at worse a disaster.  The fingers are now…
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Nov. 06, 2009 / Gordon Price

Quote: Al Gore

Last night on the Charlie Rose show, Gore speaking on the challenge of climate change: Never before have we faced…
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Oct. 19, 2009 / Gordon Price

Bridge to a Cool Planet – Oct 24

Bridge to a Cool Planet, Vancouver’s contribution to the International Day of Climate Action, is happening on Saturday October 24th…
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Sep. 08, 2009 / Gordon Price

Mixed blessings

I don’t usually do a lot of postings on Vancouver’s real-estate market since it’s a favoured topic in so many…
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Jul. 07, 2009 / Gordon Price

Useful charts and boiled frogs.

James Fallows, the Atlantic Magazine writer and blogger, says the illustration below is “the most frequently-used chart in modern climate-change…
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Feb. 08, 2009 / Gordon Price

Shovel Ready or Shovel Worthy?

My latest column in Business in Vancouver: Hard to dig Ottawa’s shovel-ready spending A lot of money is suddenly going…
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Feb. 03, 2009 / Gordon Price

Cost of Sprawl

Lots of commentary these days on the need for spending on infrastructure.  Here’s one. But they all say more or…
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Jan. 23, 2009 / Gordon Price

Cool graphics: Washington Tech Map

Economists talk about ‘clustering’ – the concentration of companies in a similar field.  A computer cluster, on the other hand, is “a…
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Jan. 22, 2009 / Gordon Price

Observations

Last night at the Vancouver Museum, David Suzuki introduced Dr. Göran Carstedt, a Swedish executive (IKEA, Volvo) who spoke on…
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Jan. 20, 2009 / Gordon Price

A Useful Word

We’re in a crumple. William Watson coined the word in a Sun column last week: A bubble, as we have…

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