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matt roberts @mattroberts May 12

Latest post from me:

Canada is privatizing the only national semiconductor fab it has left and its doing it without a strategy for what comes next.

Link below 👇

matt roberts @mattroberts Oct 29

Congrats to my old pal @mmatta10

Sean Silcoff @SeanSilcoff Oct 29

Ottawa-based AI video-surveillance company Solink raises $100-million in growth capital
theglobeandmail.com/business/artic…

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matt roberts @mattroberts Oct 22

Today should be an interesting one for my industry.

matt roberts @mattroberts Sep 18

Pot. Kettle. Black.

"Bessent in the June phone conversation repeated his earlier calls for Japan to overhaul spending that he felt undermined the BOJ's efforts to rein in inflation."

ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/bessent-a…

ca.finance.yahoo.com How Bessent, America's bond salesman, cornered Japan on big spending By Tamiyuki Kihara, Makiko Yamazaki, Takaya Yamaguchi and Leika Kihara TOKYO, Sept 18 (Reuters) - When Japanese finance minister Satsuki Katayama called Scott Bessent for help to support the cratering

matt roberts @mattroberts Aug 13

You might ask why such a random number like $93K?

The average full available pension (35 years service ) of a federal government employee. Is annualized at about 65-66K. Non senior management.

$18k a year for cpp.

OAS $9k

For a grand total of $92-93k.

Dr. Mike P. Moffatt 🇨🇦🏅🏅 Verified account @MikePMoffatt Aug 9

And let's look at that OAS clawback. OAS doesn't get clawed back until *individual* income exceeds $93,000.

Meanwhile, child benefit cheques start to get clawed back when *family* incomes reach $39,000.

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