{"id":139,"date":"2005-10-21T21:39:49","date_gmt":"2005-10-22T01:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2005\/10\/21\/oh-yeah-markets-are-conversations\/"},"modified":"2005-10-21T21:39:49","modified_gmt":"2005-10-22T01:39:49","slug":"oh-yeah-markets-are-conversations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2005\/10\/21\/oh-yeah-markets-are-conversations\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh yeah, markets are “conversations”"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/p>\n

Markets are conversations<\/a>, we’ve all learned. <\/p>\n

Bite me, why don’t you? <\/p>\n

Here’s what Corky<\/a> Evans<\/a>, B.C. New Democratic Party MLA, said about a proposed review by Ottawa of U.S. energy giant Kinder Morgan Inc.<\/a>‘s proposed $6.9-billion takeover<\/a> of Terasen<\/a> Inc.<\/a>:<\/p>\n

This is about whether or not Canadians should be able to have a conversation about Canada before we sell a chunk of it.<\/i> [More…<\/a>] <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Any more of this sort of talk, Corky, and I shall have to resort to acronyms, like ROTFLMAO…. Talk about subtle understatement! I do admire Mr. Evans for his sophisticated use of the word “conversation,” but let’s face it, this<\/i> conversation is turning into the hoserisation<\/a> of Canadians. Yup, fetchers of water and bearers wood. <\/p>\n

Enough<\/a>, already.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE: For further discussion, and in what might be true-to-blogging elliptical methodology, I’ve moved this<\/i> conversation to the comments board for Burningbird<\/a>‘s entry, Why American Businesses are Dying<\/a>. Take a pew…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Markets are conversations, we’ve all learned. Bite me, why don’t you? Here’s what Corky Evans, B.C. New Democratic Party MLA, said about a proposed review by Ottawa of U.S. energy giant Kinder Morgan Inc.‘s proposed $6.9-billion takeover of Terasen Inc.: This is about whether or not Canadians should be able to have a conversation about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yulelogstories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}