{"id":14293,"date":"2012-03-26T08:00:52","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T13:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=14293"},"modified":"2012-03-26T08:00:52","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T13:00:52","slug":"stephen-gordon-financial-headlines-youll-never-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/03\/26\/stephen-gordon-financial-headlines-youll-never-see\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Gordon: financial headlines you&#8217;ll never see"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <em>Globe &amp; Mail<\/em> Economy Lab column, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/report-on-business\/economy\/economy-lab\/stephen-gordon\/the-headline-youll-never-see-canadian-investors-fleece-foreigners\/article2381194\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Gordon<\/a> points out the monotonous message we get from our financial news sources every time a foreign company buys a Canadian firm:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Here is a headline that will never, ever run over a foreign takeover story: \u201cForeign buyers taken to cleaners by savvy Canadian investors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The reason you will never see that sort of a headline is that all stories in which foreigners buy Canadian-owned assets are based on the assumption that foreign investors are &mdash; yet again! &mdash; snapping up Canadian-owned assets on the cheap, and why oh why won\u2019t Ottawa intervene and put a stop to it? The notion that Canadian investors are fully capable of assessing the value of their holdings and that they might earn a tidy profit in selling them never seems to make an appearance in these accounts. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Globe &amp; Mail Economy Lab column, Stephen Gordon points out the monotonous message we get from our financial news sources every time a foreign company buys a Canadian firm: Here is a headline that will never, ever run over a foreign takeover story: \u201cForeign buyers taken to cleaners by savvy Canadian investors.\u201d The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,25,28],"tags":[409,213,583,101],"class_list":["post-14293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-economics","category-media","tag-corporations","tag-newspapers","tag-pessimism","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3Ix","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14294,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14293\/revisions\/14294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}