Shooting the Hippo: Death by Deficit and Other Canadian Myths


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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #3726286 in Books
  • Published on: 1995-04-27
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 309 pages



Shooting the Hippo: Death by Deficit and Other Canadian Myths

Shooting the Hippo: Death by Deficit and Other Canadian Myths (Hardcover)
By Linda McQuaig


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Customer Rating: 2.7

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Customer tags: linda mcquaig, shooting the hippo, canada



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6 of 6 people found a following examination helpful.
4Excellent,well documented comment of 'econmic reality'


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McQuaig has created an mercantile book for all a people who don't make $500,000 and a year. This is a book that has giveaway enterprisers in shock! There is a swindling and it involves a large send of typical peoples' resources to a companies that would not final a year though it. McQuaig, in a good documented entertaining argument, assails a misconceptions of general business and exposes a finish dignified and financial (!) bankruptcy. From a restraint of a bullion standard, used to incarcerate a grandfathers and grandmothers, to a stream parable of a variable general financier that is being used to destroy dual generations of amicable swell McQuaig describes a universe that is not kinder, or gentler to anyone not innate into money.

If we wish to know because wild antigovernment sidestep account investors accept billion dollar supervision (!) bail-outs while millions of people in whirly scorched Central America are offering reduction than a dollar any in assist to reconstruct there lives this is a book for you.

2 of 2 people found a following examination helpful.
5Cutting by a narrative


By Vincent Keating


Decidedly left wing, Linda McQuaig's biggest strength is to spoil a narratives of a right in Canada. The strength of this book isn't that it presents a confidant alternative, though it lets one know how a right managed to erect a 'crisis' around Canada's sovereign necessity where a tangible conditions wasn't as bad as they claimed. An engaging read, even if a small antiquated now.

1 of 1 people found a following examination helpful.
4Should be examination in school


By Doc Madsen


While a right wingers will hatred it....who cares about them they don't like we anyways. This is a book that gives we stats to behind adult what she says(not a lies of a likes of mathew fraser)A contingency examination if we like Moore, or Frankin

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