Embracing my dorkness

Following up on a thread in iambic_cub's journal yesterday, I went trolling through Google to see if I could determine the last time a Conservative prime minister of Canada entered office with a budget surplus. The earliest possible candidate would be John Diefenbaker in the 1950s but my recollection of the federal coffers under his Liberal predecessor Louis St. Laurent is a little fuzzy.

Anyway, I tripped across this: A History of the Canadian Dollar on the Bank of Canada website. I then spent a half-hour or so of my lunchtime absorbing it all. Fascinating stuff, I thought.

About 8 hours later I realized suddenly than I'm the only person I know who would read such material for entertainment.

And I never did find the historical deficit information I was looking for, although I'm sure it's out there.

Embracing my dorkness

Following up on a thread in iambic_cub's journal yesterday, I went trolling through Google to see if I could determine the last time a Conservative prime minister of Canada entered office with a budget surplus. The earliest possible candidate would be John Diefenbaker in the 1950s but my recollection of the federal coffers under his Liberal predecessor Louis St. Laurent is a little fuzzy.

Anyway, I tripped across this: A History of the Canadian Dollar on the Bank of Canada website. I then spent a half-hour or so of my lunchtime absorbing it all. Fascinating stuff, I thought.

About 8 hours later I realized suddenly than I'm the only person I know who would read such material for entertainment.

And I never did find the historical deficit information I was looking for, although I'm sure it's out there.