Refinance Help

3 why you shouldn’t wait to Refinance your home

Although many people are nervous that mention only the ‘ refi ‘ now similarities less refinance may present and growth of the system pre-2008 the main difference is that access to credit markets themselves … after the 2002 American civilization than they have for the first time in their history.

Contractions economy of 2008-2009 has reversed this trend of the debt is overwhelming.

While interest rates are inevitably suggests the wisdom (or lack thereof) that three basic reasons why looking to refinance refinancing in 2011 is going to be on the basis of the principle amount ABC: A. To adjust the length of the longer or shorter mortgage B use capital more House with liquidity C moving from risk of refresh rate rise in the future.

These are ABC of survey information should tell you decide how to act quickly to refinance: by all appearance 2011 will be able to close the window on most of the refinance years.

Why a: reduce the length of the mortgage

Long-term Investing for the average consumer is still based on fellow home potential using the House as a tangible prospect more liquid assets are likely to decline in default. If the price of houses, it might be time to essentially stabilizing housing market products is by buying dollars while the Trade-off is to capture the low interest rates without increasing debt by wasting money refi.

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In short, don’t use the refinancing loan to create.

Because many consumers moved into housing market (even 50 year mortgages made in general quite), longer-term mortgages. Used to be a major opportunity to shorten these terms with traditional. Mortgages … always back to a period of 20 years while the crisis has caused banks to increase their holdings so have consumer savings habit realigned their. Benefits of savings more conscious consumers can be given quickly by paying off home mortgages and refinancing would become important elements in this trend.

B reason: adding short-term liquidity

The interest rate is determined and may in time is quite short. The gas pressure is not recognized by no one at this point, is hoping to run on refinancing to pull new consumer binge or stave off personal crises rather than experts will hopefully of interest refinancing can actually take to restructure debt House itself … using refinancing to add in the home also represents the original back to the home refinancing rather than on more debt.

Why c: eliminate the risk of increased refresh rate.

Refinancing are returns of interest pre-boom by preparing a refinance consumers may be by updating its competition when it loosens credit … almost certainly will change in available credit will share capital currently assumed. By including … who are reluctant to increase their lending until certain abnormal growth market. The number of records closely Consumers have the right to refinance will mirror these artistic intelligence.

Difficulties in refinancing today is not. Of desirability, but availability of Refinancing are not available or even as consumer all … every reason to act quickly to refinance arguments can cut other ways, for example, a person employed as a tenuous to ongoing security of owning their home as a fixed asset, but instead use their home as a virtual ATM. The window of low interest rates might be one of the Renaissance to refinance the most useful is also seen.

For everyone properly blame refinancing bubble bursting of property for 2008-09 it may be fair in refinancing now economic recovery in 2011-12.

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Rome visit, June 2008 – 57


Image by Ed Yourdon
These pictures were taken during a trip to Rome in Jun 2008, where I presented a 2-day seminar on "Web 2.0".

I noticed this couple, sitting on the railing that separates the vehicular roadway from the pedestrian part of the Piazza del Popolo. I couldn’t tell if they were arguing, engaged in a who-blinks-first? contest, or just having a thoughtful conversation…

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Note: this photo was published on Jul 8, 2008 in a blog posting entitled "Reader Question: Handling Pressure to Apologize." It was also published in an Aug 21, 2008 blog article entitled "Marriage, money, debt, and divorce?" And it was published in a Jan 27, 2009 blog article entitled "Complaining’s Place In Marriage." In addition, it was published in a Jan 13, 2009 blog titled "Karen Kalisek’s Top 20 Things To Help (1-5)." More recently, it was published in a March 17, 2009 "Mind Hack" blog article titled "Dominant chemicals." And it was published in a Sep 13, 2009 blog titled "How to Fight With Your Partner."

A few days later, it was published in a Sep 18, 2009 blog titled "Couple’s Counseling: Why I Don’t Take Sides." And it was published in an Oct 20, 2009 Greek blog titled "Η ψυχολογική κακοποίηση των ανδρών." It was also published in a Nov 4, 2009 blog titled "10 tips for traveling as a couple – and not breaking up." And it was published in a Nov 14, 2009 blog titled "How Thoughtful Words Save Marriages." It was also published in an undated (late-November 2009) blog titled "Democratia cuplului." It was also published, on page 5 of 8, in a Nov 14, 2009 blog titled "Best of the Week: Forbidden Gifts, Landlord Secrets & More."

One of the more unusual publications of this photo was in a Dec 7, 2009 blog titled "Separated Spouses Filing Bankruptcy Together." It was also published in a Nov 30, 2009 blog titled "The Language Barrier."

Moving into 2010, the photo was published in a Jan 7, 2010 blog titled "Everyone has a bad day." It was also published in a Jan 7, 2010 blog titled "Dealing with travel-partner conflicts." And it was published in an undated (Jan 2010) blog titled "Avoiding the Heartbreak Hostel: 10 Simple Rules For Backpacking Lovin’ for Female Travellers." It was also published in a Jan 18, 2010 Greek blog titled "Τι συμβαίνει στην αγάπη μετά το γάμοl." And it was published in a Jan 20, 2010 blog titled "CityFiles: Letting them down easy (he said/she said)."

Good grief: now it has been published in a Jan 22, 2010 blog titled "Infidelity Doesn’t Have to Mean Divorce," and a Jan 24, 2010 blog titled "Both partners need to be involved." It was also published in a Feb 5, 2010 Dutch blog titled "‘Wij’ gelukkiger dan ‘ik’." And it was published in an undated (Feb 2010) blog titled "Adult Separation Anxiety." And it was published in a Jan 30, 2010 Wikihow blog page with the same title as the caption that I used for this Flickr page. I’ve also discovered that it was published in a Feb 12, 2010 Canadian blog titled "We need to talk (about the history of marriage counselling)." And it was published in an undated (Mar 2010) blog titled "Communication Skill Lesson Plan." It was also published in a Mar 25, 2010 blog titled "Marital Gridlock And Growing Up." It was also published in a Mar 28, 2010 blog titled "In today’s culture, sex is public but love is private." And it was published in a Mar 30, 2010 blog titled "Professional honeymooners: dream job or nightmare?"

There’s more: the photo was published in an Apr 5, 2010 blog titled "John Mayer Was Right: You Gotta Say What You Need To Say." And it was published in an Apr 6, 2010 blog titled "Miscarraiges [sic] Strain Marriages." It was also published in an Apr 8, 2010 blog titled "Why We Stay With Unfaithful Partners." And it was published in an Apr 9, 2010 blog titled "Foursquare Becomes Great Predictor Of Divorce," as well as an Apr 10, 2010 blog titled Relationship Advice | Too Immature for Relationship It was also published in an Apr 13, 2010 Italian blog titled "Uomini col Mestruo, un gruppo su Facebook smaschera i senza palle." And it was published in a May 14, 2010 Peruvian(?) blog titled "Codependencia: Cuando la propia identidad se pierde en la pareja." It was also published in a Jun 11, 2010 blog titled "Is Divorce Contagious?" It was also published in a Jun 25, 2010 blog titled "The Magic Of Making Up – Authors Overview," and a Jun 26, 2010 blog titled "The struggle for control in a relationship." A similar blog, titled "The stages of relationships: Phase 3: The power struggle," was published on Jun 28, 2010; and on the same day, the photo was published in a Trés Sugar blog titled "Finding Out Why We Fight Might Help Us Patch Things Up." It was also published in a Jun 29, 2010 Mashable blog titled "Facebook Becoming a Prime Source for Divorce Case Evidence," and I’m pretty sure that the Spanish edition of the same blog appeared on Jun 30, 2010 with a title of "Servicio gratis de mediación para divorcios en Gipuzkoa."

Moving into the second half of 2010, the photo was published in a Jul 2, 2010 blog titled " I Want My Husband To Love Me Again – 4 Ways To Rekindle Your Romance." It was also published in a Jul 8, 2010 blog about insurance, titled "How Can I Convince You?" And it was published in an undated (Jul 2010) blog titled "Adult Separation Anxiety." It was also published in a Jul 12, 2010 blog titled "Temas tabúes en las relaciones de pareja." And it was published in a Jul 14, 2010 blog titled "Initiative to Ban Divorce in California Resurfaces." It was also published in a Jul 15, 2010 Dating 1001 blog, with the same title as the caption that I used on this Flickr page. It was also published in a Jul 25, 2010 blog titled "Businesses Capitalizing on High Unemployment." And it was published in a Jul 29, 2010 blog titled "How to Deal With Financial Infidelity," as well as a Jul 29, 2010 blog titled "Words of Wisdom: Ryan Holiday. It was also published in a Sep 6, 2010 blog titled "Living together apart – Conviviendo juntos pero separados." And it was published in a Sep 15, 2010 blog titled "Is Your Debt A Relationship Killer?" It was also published in a Sep 17, 2010 blog titled "We Got Into An Argument, Part I." And it was published in a Sep 18, 2010 blog titled "Saving It." It was also published in a Sep 25, 2010 blog titled "Help Save My Marriage – What To Do." And it was published in an undated (late Sep) "Dating Advice Expert" blog titled "Marital dispute: An overview of court proceedings." It was also published in a Sep 30, 2010 blog titled "It’s a Guy Thing." And it was published in an undated (Oct 2010) blog titled "Dealing with Infidelity is a Response by Couples in Trouble." It was also published in an Oct 15, 2010 Judy Cares blog titled "Is it a Marriage or a Relationship?", as well as an Oct 19, 2010 blog titled "Moving Forward in a Marriage: Forgiving the Minor Mistakes." And it was published in an Oct 26, 2010 blog titled "Relationships should be Easy and fun." It was also published in an Oct 29, 2010 blog titled "I suggested couples counseling and my fiance said “I don’t do counseling. What should I do?", and another Oct 29, 2010 blog titled "Cosas que no debes decir en una cita."

Moving into November, it was published in a Nov 2, 2010 blog titled "Justicia rechaza el 7% de las demandas de divorcio por no cumplir requisitos." It was also published in an undated (Nov 2010) blog titled "Relationship Break Up Advice – How to Save Your Broken Relationship." And it was published in a Nov 8, 2010 blog titled "Welcome to Improve Sex Life." It was also published in a Nov 15, 2010 blog titled "Question of the Week: How has chronic illness impacted your marriage?", and a Nov 16, 2010 blog titled "Lastest [sic] Debt Counseling News." And it was published in an undated (mid-Nov 2010) Lying Lovers blog titled "Recovering From Infidelity – Crucial Steps to Rebuilding Your Marriage." It was also published in an undated (late Nov 2010) blog titled "Long Distance Relationships: How to Know When it’s Time to Call it Quits," and it was published in an undated (late Nov 2010) blog titled "Reconciliation is Possible with the Help of a Couples Counseling NYC Therapist." It was also published in a Dec 3, 2010 blog titled "Will Your Marriage Succeed Or Fail?", as well as a Dec 3, 2010 blog titled "Sole Sisters’ Guide to Keeping Sane While Traveling in Twos." And it was published in a Dec 6, 2010 blog titled "1 de cada 5 divorcios usan a Facebook como prueba de infidelidad." It was also published in an undated (mid-Dec 2010) Hospital Medical Billing Fraud blog titled "Do Infertile People Make Better Parents?" And it was published in a Dec 13, 2010 Polish blog titled "Kobiety kłamią inaczej niż faceci. Kto częściej?." It was also published in a Dec 27, 2010 blog titled "The Easy Way to Make Money Online Everyday." And it was published in a Dec 30, 2010 blog titled "Relationship Cues: Sensing the Unspoken." Finally, it was published in a Dec 31, 2010 blog titled "Divorced and Co-Parenting: How to Get Along With Your Ex."

Moving into 2011, the photo was first published in a Jan 2, 2011 blog titled " Importance Of Medical Insurance Plans." It was also published in a Jan 3, 2011 blog titled "Car Insurance Tips for Mature Drivers in Florida, as well as a Jan 5, 2011 Forbes.com blog titled "5 Ways Your Partner Can Ruin Your Credit." It was also published in a Jan 6, 2011 "Learn to Earn Online blog, with the same title and descriptive notes as what I had originally written on this Flickr page. It was also published in a Jan 10, 2011 blog titled "Bankruptcy Rules Review." And it was published in an undated (mid-Jan 2011) "Counseling Rehab" blog titled "4 Ways to Treat Your Addiction." It was also published in a Jan 13, 2011 blog titled "Waiting for Debt Help and Free Debt Advice?" And it was published in a Jan 15, 2011 blog titled "Online Dating Tips: How To Create A Great Profile." It was also published in a Jan 16, 2011 blog titled "Farmville Cheats And Associated Dangers," and another Jan 16, 2011 blog titled "Searching For The Fastest Way to Make Money Online?" It was also published in a Jan 17, 2010 pinkblog.it blog titled "Coppia: non perdonare il partner fa bene al rapporto." And it was published in a Jan 18, 2011 blog titled "How to Keep a Conversation Going." It was also published in a Jan 20, 2011 blog titled "5 Tips for Taking a Successful Online Dating Profile Photo." And it was published in an undated (late Jan 2011) blog titled "Why Social And Traditional Media Marketers Should Stop Acting Like Fighting Lovers." It was also published in a Jan 26, 2011 blog titled "Facebook cheating, restaurant websites and living in caves with Dinner Party Download." And it was published in an undated (late Jan 2011) blog titled "Stop Arguing Your Relationships to Death." It was also published in a Jan 30, 2011 blog titled "Ask the Readers: Hiding Money from Your Spouse."

The photo was also published in an undated (early Feb 2011) blog titled "Debt Relief Consolidation – Tips To Find Free Debt Help Online," with the caption and detailed notes that I provided on this Flickr page, followed by some more serious comments about the details of debt relief consolidation. And it was published in a Feb 13, 2011 blog titled "5 Sizzling Online Dating Tips." It was also published in a Feb 15, 2011 blog titled "The 1st Key for Dealing with Marital Strife," and it was published in a Feb 24, 2011 blog titled "Do You Know Your Rights?" It was also published in a Mar 8, 2011 blog titled 4 Reasons Why Open Marriage Doesnt Work," and a Mar 11, 2011 blog titled "What Do Musicians Really Earn Online?" And it was published in a Mar 16,2011 Car Insurance Companies blog, with the same caption and detailed notes that I had written on this Flickr page. It was also published in an undated (mid-Mar 2011) Website titled Especialistas en Divorcios. And it was published in a Mar 21, 2011 blog titled "Make love, not war: enjoy travel as a couple." It was also published in an undated (late Mar 2011) blog titled "Things You Must Know About Free Debt Consolidation Services." And it was published in a Mar 24, 2011 Nice How to Make Money Online Photos blog, with the same caption and detailed notes that I used on this Flickr page. It was also published in a Mar 30, 2011 blog titled "Gründe für die Eifersucht." And it was published in an Apr 7, 2011 blog titled "The Italian Language Learning," as well as an Apr 8, 2011 blog titled "How to Make People Angry," and an Apr 10, 2011 blog titled "Gründe für die Eifersucht." It was also published in an Apr 20, 2011 blog titled "6 Common mistakes that can ruin your relationship."

I can’t help wondering if this poor couple had any idea how many different bizarre blog postings would be using them to illustrate their message…

Looking Down The Barrel Of a Big Old Gun – IMF Comes To Ireland


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MS. ATKINSON: Good morning everybody and welcome to our biweekly press briefing. I’m Caroline Atkinson, the Director of the External Relations Department at the IMF. As usual this briefing is embargoed until 10:30 a.m. Washington time, 1530 GMT.

A couple of things before we turn to your questions online and in the room. The Managing Director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, will be in Frankfurt tomorrow speaking at two different events, at the ECB Conference which I believe began today on approaches to monetary policy and lessons from the crisis, and at the European Banking Congress. He will be delivering a speech there. We will let you know when it is available on our website and I’m not sure yet whether we will have a version prepared for delivery. The week after next on December 2, the Managing Director will be in New Delhi meeting with officials and again giving a speech at a roundtable at the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry. The First Deputy Managing Director John Lipsky is going to be delivering a speech next week in New York on November 23 at the Economic Club, and then he will be going to Dubai to participate in the World Economic Forum Summit on the Global Agenda on 27 to 30 November.

I can turn now to your questions. As usual, if you could identify yourselves, your name and your organization.

QUESTIONER: Could you tell us more about the IMF team that is in Dublin today, how many people, their names and titles, if possible? Also how is their mission or mandate been defined by the IMF? Finally, if the IMF does loan money to Ireland, what sort of interest rate would be taking about? Would it be comparable to the rates being charged of Hungary and Latvia and what are those rates? Thank you.

MS. ATKINSON: Let me begin with the last question which is perhaps the simplest. First of all, we have not received a request for financial support so anything to do with that is hypothetical, but I can tell you that we have perfectly standard interest rates and charges. I don’t have them off the top of my head but they are available and we can get back to you with that, and they are available on our website. On your other questions, you’re right that there is an IMF team actually en route to Dublin now. The Mission Chief will be Ajai Chopra who has been the Acting Director of our European Department. We’re waiting for the new director who will be taking up his duties at the of November. Aja is very experienced in the IMF and he’s been working on European countries for a long time. He’s been leading the Euro Area consultations and he has already landed in Dublin. But the rest of the team is arriving and they will be able to begin work tomorrow morning, Friday morning.

QUESTIONER: How big is the rest of the team?

MS. ATKINSON: I believe there are some banking team experts and regular country experts. I’m not completely sure of the numbers but I think it’s around 10 or 12. The other person who will be there is Ashoka Mody who was the leader, the Mission Chief, for the Article IV consultations on the last two occasions so that you may be familiar with him. And the other team members who typically go to Ireland and then the particular banking sector experts as the focus of these consultations as we described on Tuesday and as the Europe Group described, the focus of the consultations is to look at whatever measures might be needed to support financial stability and protect against market risks in the light of the Irish government’s 4-year budgetary plan.

QUESTIONER: How long will they stay in Dublin?

MS. ATKINSON: It just depends. We never say at the beginning of our missions how long teams will stay. It depends on how the technical discussions continue and so on.

QUESTIONER: Would these be the same people who went to Athens, Mr. Chopra and Mr. Komodi? Would they be the same people who handled the Greek crisis?

MS. ATKINSON: No.

QUESTIONER: They’re not the same people?

MS. ATKINSON: They are not the same people, no. In fact, there is a team in Greece now, so those are the people. Yes, at the back?

QUESTIONER: Two things. One, can you explain what has happened since I guess a couple weeks ago when the IMF repeatedly said that it did not believe that Ireland needed any special assistance, that its budgetary proposals and actions were sufficient to meet their crisis situation? Secondly, Irish officials have indicated that any IMF funding wouldn’t necessarily require conditionality because it would be meeting bank capital buffers rather than government loans. Is that accurate to say?

MS. ATKINSON: The second part of your question is hypothetical about what would we do if there were a request for financial support and so I’m not going to go there. I would refer you to other cases where we believe that it’s important to have government ownership of policy measures, and as we have seen in Greece there has been important public ownership even though measures that the government is taking there have been quite difficult.

Turning to Ireland, you mention that the government has laid out a plan. The Europe Group has supported that plan of fiscal adjustment. It’s obviously difficult but it recognizes that some fiscal adjustment is necessary to deal with the aftermath of the boom and the crisis and we expect that that plan will come to the budget whether it’s early December or late November. The mission that is there now is looking at the situation in particular in the financial sector given the concerns about market risks.

QUESTIONER: To follow-up on the first question I asked. What happened in the interim between when the IMF said everything looks appropriate, their budget proposals, the consolidation efforts that IMF clearly had said repeatedly it did not believe that a special funding IMF assistance would be necessary, to where we are today where the IMF team is going to investigate whether or not a special assistance is necessary?

MS. ATKINSON: I’m pretty sure that what we said in the past was characterizing our analysis of the budget looking at the prospects for the economy and fiscal consolidation in the debt track and I have no reason to change that. You know as well as I do that what’s happened in the meantime is that there have been some market pressures and in reaction to that the Irish government has been concerned and Euro partners as well about the best ways to reinforce financial stability in Ireland to lay the foundation for a strong recovery. We’re usually pretty careful. I don’t have the words of the press release in my mind now, but we’re usually pretty careful not to make categorical statements that last forever. Obviously things can change, but right now we are having technical discussions or we plan to begin technical discussions tomorrow with the Irish authorities.

QUESTIONER: Would you say that the situation now is more a result of market pressures than it is fundamental underlying structural issues?

MS. ATKINSON: There’s a mission in the field. I am not going to comment on how their analysis will evolve. We’ve commented already on the underlying situation, but for every country, policies evolve in reaction to the situation in which countries find themselves.

QUESTIONER: Just to quickly clarify something, is there a facility or an avenue for the IMF just to support a banking sector without going through the government?

MS. ATKINSON: Again that is a hypothetical question.

QUESTIONER: No, it’s not a hypothetical.

MS. ATKINSON: Let me tell you the way the IMF deals with governments. We only lend money when governments make a request. We only consider making loans or disbursements when governments make a request. And our money is channeled through governments. It may be channeled to a variety of different purposes, but we couldn’t decide to lend to an individual farmer or to you or to me.

QUESTIONER: That’s all I wanted to establish, that it would have to go through the government. A question I had is what can you tell us about cross-exposure to the Irish banking sector elsewhere in the world? Have you looked at these sorts of systemic connections? Are there risks clustered in any other country, the U.K. or elsewhere that you have identified?

MS. ATKINSON: I don’t have anything for you on that. I would point out that of course Ireland is very important. It is a relatively small part, I believe it’s about 1 percent of Euro Area GDP, but of course it’s important to maintain a watch on these sorts of situations as the Euro authorities and the IMF and indeed others are doing.

QUESTIONER: I have a few questions concerning. First of all, if the IMF has any reaction about the fact that the Argentinean government announced that it’s going to negotiate with the Paris Club without the assistance of the IMF.

MS. ATKINSON: I understand and we understand that the Paris Club has indicated a willingness to have discussions with Argentina on repayment over a short period of time of their loans. That has been done in some other cases. Restructuring of debt with the Paris Club traditionally involves the IMF and an IMF program, but repayments of debts over a short period of time would be probably a good thing.

QUESTIONER: When you said a short period of time, we are talking about how long?

MS. ATKINSON: That’s something for the Paris Club and Argentina to debate. It’s not something for us to get involved in.

QUESTIONER: Do you in some way believe that this is a message from the country saying or reaffirming their refusal to allow the Article IV?

MS. ATKINSON: No, I don’t think that. We have continuing relations with Argentina. We have a representative who’s located in Buenos Aires. We continue to have discussions with the Argentine authorities also in the G-20. I think this is a separate issue where the Argentine authorities have expressed some interest and the Paris Club has expressed a willingness to discuss normalization of their relations with those creditors. So I would see it in that light.

QUESTIONER: Forty days ago at the closing of the Annual Meetings, the final document did a very strong call to all the members to fulfill the obligations concerning Article IV. In the region the only two countries that don’t do that are Venezuela and Argentina. In this last 40 days did something happen or did something change between Argentina and the answering of this call or nothing at all?

MS. ATKINSON: No, I have nothing for you on that. As I say, we continue to have discussions with the Argentine authorities and you’re right that we haven’t had an Article IV consultation with them for quite a while now although we do continue to maintain relations. I have some questions online so I’ll perhaps turn to a couple of those.

QUESTIONER: Sorry, the last one. Yesterday I saw some officials from the Argentinean government here at the IMF. They came from Argentina so I was wondering if maybe there is something new to tell us or some negotiations.

MS. ATKINSON: No. You’re right that the Foreign Affairs Minister I believe it was was visiting officials here and this is also something that happens from time to time.

QUESTIONER: I think it’s his first time here.

MS. ATKINSON: It may be his first time but it’s not the first time that Argentine officials have been here so that this is part of what I characterized as our continuing discussions and continuing relations with Argentina. One of the questions online is about Sri Lanka and it’s from Divan Daniel of Pali Newspapers who asks Sri Lanka is submitting its 2011 budget next Monday. How confident is the IMF that tangible, concrete fiscal reforms including tax reforms would be included? I would say that we have a program with Sri Lanka and there has been a review concluded recently or discussions recently and this budget will be an important signal of the authorities’ willingness to continue with the fiscal reforms.

I should perhaps also explain that I have received quite a lot of particular questions on Ireland online. Some of them are asking, and I’ll repeat one or two of the questions so that you understand what’s coming in, they may be about our views on the government’s budget plans, our views on various tax and spending measures, our views on Ireland’s needs for financial support, and to clarify that I’ve said in answer to your questions all that there is to say now and to repeat that we’re not in program discussions today. We’re having technical discussions right now. And of course we’ll be keeping you updated and we are also there with as you know the E.U. and the ECB so that it’s three-party discussion with the Irish.

QUESTIONER: I want to ask you directly does the IMF have any concern about the Spanish financial situation that could lead us to a similar situation in Spain as in Ireland?

MS. ATKINSON: We have seen the Spanish government take strong measures both to address fiscal issues and on structural reforms and we expect those to continue and to support the Spanish economy and that’s the kind of thing that helps to support against any threat of contagion. So I think that we feel that the Spanish government has been in control of the situation.

QUESTIONER: These market pressures, do you think Spain could be in a similar situation in a few days or in few weeks?

MS. ATKINSON: Every country is different and Spain’s situation now is clearly different from that of Ireland and the particular problems in Ireland that the Irish authorities have spoken about their banking system and financial system is a different one from some of the challenges facing Spain which are also about dealing with unemployment and growth as well as market pressures.

I have a question online. Greece’s 2011 budget tabled today aims to cut its budget gap to 7.4 percent of GDP. Do you have any comments on that? Will the measures already outlined by enough? Would the IMF consider revising the 2011 deficit goal is the country encountered major comments, and are there any first comments from the mission’s visit to Athens? That’s a complicated question. I have a fairly simple answer which is that there is a mission there on the ground. We do expect that there will be a concluding statement and a full press conference in Athens when the mission finishes which will be early next week, probably Monday. And all of these, you know, I don’t comment normally on discussions that are underway, so all of those issues will be addressed on Monday. Here and then here and then online. Yes?

QUESTIONER: Regarding Ireland again, will there be a full press conference in Ireland when the mission is completed? You mentioned one in Greece.

MS. ATKINSON: I don’t know. The mission in Greece is a negotiating mission that’s part of the program that was announced earlier this year, and I think it probably depends. In Ireland we will probably be taking some questions at the end of the mission. We will definitely not be doing that in the middle of the mission, and it will probably depend on how things develop on the ground. And we’ll, of course, keep you informed.

QUESTIONER: Irish officials have said that in these talks with the IMF in Dublin, they will be fighting, you know, to preserve not—they will be fighting any pressure exerted to make further cuts in budgets than the billion that have already been foreseen. And there is sort of this image in Ireland of the IMF coming in and, you know, slashing spending and depriving people of basic needs and that sort of thing. Does—is there—would the IMF demand further cuts than those already envisioned? And sort of how does it feel to IMF officials to be seen as these cruel taskmasters, you know, coming in and whipping people who are already down? And then I have a second question—go ahead.

MS. ATKINSON: The IMF’s ultimate goal whenever we go to a country is to help to fix that country’s problems so that there can be a strong and sustainable recovery, so that there can be growth that can be maintained, and financial stability. And in particular, one of the things that we’ve learned and that we’ve focused I would say quite a bit more during this crisis is the importance of the ownership of a program by the government and the people, and that is important for a program’s success. One part of that is also to make sure that the most vulnerable and the poorest are protected. I mean, very often when the IMF comes into a country, it’s like a doctor. We get called in because the patient is sick. And we have some medicine, which is the liquidity and the funds that we can provide, but we also have to suggest some measures—whether it’s dieting if you’ve got a heart problem or anything else—that may sometimes be difficult for countries to implement. But what we are doing is smoothing that adjustment. We’re providing money so that countries don’t actually have to take such difficult measures as they would have to without the money. And increasingly, over the last couple of years we’ve been very focused on the need for what we’ve been calling “social conditionality” on the need to protect the very poorest and the most vulnerable when there are, as there often are, adjustments required in the government deficit. Typically we get invited to a country—I’m not talking about Ireland now—but if we take Greece, we were invited there because the country had fiscal difficulties and difficulties in paying their bills. So we will advise on that.

QUESTIONER: I also wanted to ask you the if the funds would come entirely from the EU rescue fund, but I’ve also read that it would be a mixture of IMF and EU funds if there is a bailout. Could you comment? Would it be a mixture of IMF and EU or solely EU? And just mechanically, how does it work? The EU gives the money and the IMF supervises its implementation? Who does what between the EU and the IMF?

MS. ATKINSON: On Ireland I just want to repeat that there has been no request for financial support. No request to the IMF and no request to the EU or the ECB. So I don’t want to answer that question in the context of Ireland. I can point you to some other programs, not just Greece in the eurozone, but also Hungary and some others where there has been joint funding between the IMF and the EU and the ECB. And the joint funding—and actually in the case of Iceland, you know, there were other bilaterals that were supporting the Icelandic program, some of the Nordic countries. And in general, we have worked very closely with the EU and the ECB on whatever agreement and measures there may be. And I’m happy to take you through more of those details if, you know, if that would be helpful. You know, we can speak later.

QUESTIONER: Is it on an ad hoc basis? Does it vary according to each country? There’s no sort of set formula for how it’s done?

MS. ATKINSON: No, there isn’t. We have normal procedures, but there are not set formulas. We deal with every country on case-by-case basis, but we have a framework which we have used and which we are using in countries, although not in Ireland right now.

QUESTIONER: I just wanted to go back and press you a little bit if I could. Given the emphasis over the last year or so on spillovers, cross-border connections, the early-warning exercises, all of those, I’ve got to assume that somebody’s been looking at the connections emanating out from Ireland over the last few weeks. Could you give us a sense of what sort of research has been done in that regard and what the risks are?

MS. ATKINSON: There is research going on all the time into all sorts of spillovers. You mentioned the early warnings. You mentioned the spillover reports, which we will be beginning. That was mentioned at the G-20 and at the IMF World Bank annual meetings. I don’t have anything for you on, you know, where we see risks now beyond what has been published, you know, already in our Global Financial Stability Report, for example. It’s a pretty detailed document that came out earlier this year in October. So, I don’t have more for you on that.

I’m going to come to Ian and Sandrine in a minute, but there’s also a few questions online. Speaking about the G-20 in South Korea, a U.N. official on November 16th criticized the IMF reform, saying that two-thirds of the shift to developing countries—that’s in quotas, quota shares—comes from developing countries. Is that the case, and what is the IMF’s response?

I’m not aware of that particular criticism because, of course, much of the commentary on the quota shift that was agreed in the IMF Board on November 5, much of the commentary has been rather positive. And that is because of the shift to emerging markets and developing countries of over 6 percent of quotas. And about 80 percent of that comes from advanced economies and a small number of oil-producing economies. So the vast bulk of the shift to emerging and dynamic countries comes from those groups that were over-represented, including many advanced countries, of course, but also some oil-producing countries, which are classified in developing countries. So I think that has led to that confusion. But of the overall number, I think 102 of the 187 member countries—no, 110 of the 187 maintained or increased their quota share, and of that 102 were emerging and developing countries. So I think it’s clear that there’s been a big shift, there will be a big shift, in voting share and quota share to emerging and developing countries as a result of that reform when it’s implemented.

I have another question. Has the IMF got concerns that recent market tensions will cause significant damage to financing conditions in Portugal and Spain? Does the IMF have funds to support Portugal and/or Spain if Ireland’s support is to proceed?

And just to say that all of those are hypothetical questions. You’d probably do better asking the market experts how they see tension spreading. What I do know is that we see the Portuguese government and the Spanish government have taken measures. The Portuguese government is, as I said, presenting, expected to present, its budget to Parliament next week. The Spanish government has also taken significant structural and fiscal measures and had a rather lower debt position to begin with.

QUESTIONER: You specifically said that the current mission in Ireland is a technical mission and not a program mission. Historically, can technical missions turn into program missions or would it require a separate mission that would then be identified as a program mission to negotiate a program?

MS. ATKINSON: So historically, what we require is a request for funds in order to begin negotiating. And we also require approval internally for such negotiations to begin. In terms of who travels where and everything, one can be more flexible.

QUESTIONER: So if there was a request during –

MS. ATKINSON: It’s a hypothetical, and you know I’m not going to go there.

QUESTIONER: No, no, no. I’m talking about historically, looking historically, have there been technical discussions that during a mission a request has been made which has then turned into a program discussion? I’m just trying to understand how the IMF procedurally, operationally, works historically.

MS. ATKINSON: Right. So procedurally, operationally, historically, even though I’ve been here a long time, I don’t have off the top of my head how missions have changed in the field. What I can tell you is that the first thing we need to do is to have a request for financial support and then we will have discussions. You know, internally we need to have some agreement about how that request would be met. We’re also able to act very quickly and very flexibly, and we’re always ready to do that.

QUESTIONER: I don’t have your point clear. I will let you know if I can only assume that the presence here of Mr. Timmerman is in some way a response to the request of the IMF to go ahead with Article IV?

MS. ATKINSON: I don’t think we can make such an assumption because, first of all it’s often dangerous to make assumptions, and secondly I believe that the situation with Argentina and the Article IV has been going on for some time now. There have been different meetings and discussions. So I think we’re, of course, ready, but I wouldn’t make any assumptions from any particular visit or set of discussions.

QUESTIONER: What are they talking about?

MS. ATKINSON: Well as I said, we often have discussions with Argentine officials. We have Resident Representative there. We have people that come here for the annual meeting. So, I would just characterize these discussions as in our normal interchange, and I don’t have anything more for you on that.

QUESTIONER: You say all countries are in a different situation, but, you know, as you saw the markets are just reacting all the same on all the potential problem countries. How close do you think we are to a debt crisis if nothing is done in Ireland? And the second question is, based on the size of Ireland, given the size of Greece and the size of the package to Greece, I mean, is help the same size as Greece conceivable or does it make sense for Ireland?

MS. ATKINSON: I’m not going to comment on what size of money might be available were we to receive a request for funds. I think part of your question was about if are we worried that somehow there could be a problem that couldn’t be dealt with. And I’d just like to emphasize that we’ve seen that the EU has been able to respond when risks arise, that’s happened already earlier this year. A number of the EU institutions and national authorities have been implementing measures on fiscal reform, on structural reforms, and on the establishment of special mechanisms which are in place. We have worked with them. We have ample resources. The Europeans have ample ability to act as and when needed. So, if that helps to answer a little bit about the overall thing.

There are two questions online. Both Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State here, and the U.K.’s William Hague, Foreign Minister, said on the 16th of November that they’re in talks about reducing national debt as an incentive for the southern Sudan’s succession referendum that’s scheduled early next year on January 9th. And are we involved in any talks? Can we play any role in reducing Sudan’s debt?” So I just want to acknowledge that we’ve got that question. I don’t have anything for you now, but we’ll follow up with you on that bilaterally.

There’s another question on a different topic here, which you may have noticed that we have put out a paper. It’s the routine paper about the valuation of the SDR, the Special Drawing Right basket, which is our unit of currency. And there’s a question about when and how we can say, “Why is the Renminbi not, the Chinese currency, not a part of that? And what is the standard of the—that the IMF has for including currencies in that basket?” And there are a couple of key criteria. One is that the currency should be much used by, you know, in international trade; and the other that there should be—that it should be freely usable. And so the Chinese Renminbi still has, you know, there’s still capital control so it’s not part of the SDR, but we do have that information online.

Okay, so I think I’ll take one more quick question there and there, but I’m already anticipating that my answers will be a bit repetitive.

QUESTIONER: Yes, I just wanted to clarify Strauss-Kahn’s speeches in Frankfort. Both of those are tomorrow, one at the ECB Conference and the other at the European Banking Congress. Will those speeches be released under embargo? And can you give us any idea of what he’s intending to speak about?

MS. ATKINSON: I have nothing for you on that. If it is released under embargo, we’ll certainly make sure that you know. One event’s in the morning, German time, and one in the afternoon.

QUESTIONER: One of the main issues for Ireland is will it be able to maintain its 12.5 percent corporate tax rate? There is a perception certainly that the EU is very keen for that tax break to come up, and there is a perception among experts that the IMF is a little bit more lenient because they understand that this tax rate is crucial to Ireland’s future growth. Could you comment on that? Is that true? Would the IMF be more understanding than the EU on that?

And the other question, some people are predicting now a crisis in the whole residential property market, the rates of foreclosures are going up, people being out on the street. You mentioned earlier that the IMF does care about the most disadvantaged in these crises and is trying to protect them. Is it possible that a part of any agreement with the Irish would include a government program to keep people in their homes?

MS. ATKINSON: I’m sorry, you’re getting way ahead of where we are, so I can’t offer you anything on any details of discussions that haven’t even begun yet.

QUESTIONER: Do you have a policy on corporate tax rates?

MS. ATKINSON: No, we don’t have a defined policy. I mean, every country is different, has different circumstances, similar to what we are.

QUESTIONER: I would like to know if the Spanish government needs to do more or to do different or faster than now in order to avoid the current market pressures?

MS. ATKINSON: We believe that the Spanish government has laid out a fairly ambitious plan and that that’s what needs to be implemented. The structural reforms are also important to provide over the medium term a reduction in unemployment and more job growth. So that’s all I have on Spain now.

Thank you all very much. Embargoed until 10:30 our time, 1530 GMT. Thank you.

CPR / My Neighbour to the West


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From my set entitled “Our Home, Streetsville”
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In my collection entitled “Places”
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I’ve always lived close to railway lines. When I was growing up in Orangeville, Ontario, I lived near the main station. Both the Canadian National Railway (CNR) and the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) passed through town. When my sister and I moved to a fifty acre farm in Dixie, Ontario (near Toronto) in 1960, the CPR bisected our land.

For the twenty-two years Karen and I have lived at our current address in Streetsville, Ontario, the CPR has been our neighbour across the back fence. People ask us, “Don’t the trains bother you?” We answer that we don’t even hear them.

We sit on the deck and view a lot of interesting stuff go by. One day I watched a trainload of tanks pass. Didn’t know Canada had so many tanks. We also see intriguing graffiti on the sides of tankers and boxcars. And there are cars from all over the U.S. and Canada.

This is the first shot of the trains I have taken from the deck, but there will be more. It’s best to take such pictures after the leaves have dropped, since it’s hard to see the trains through the summer foliage.

Reproduced from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Pacific_Railway
The Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR; AAR reporting marks CP, CPAA, CPI), known as CP Rail between 1968 and 1996, is a Canadian Class I railway operated by Canadian Pacific Railway Limited. Its rail network stretches from Vancouver to Montreal, and also serves major cities in the United States such as Minneapolis, Chicago, and New York City. Its headquarters are in Calgary, Alberta.

The railway was originally built between eastern Canada and British Columbia between 1881 and 1885 (connecting with Ottawa Valley and Georgian Bay area lines built earlier), fulfilling a promise extended to British Columbia when it entered Confederation in 1871. It was Canada’s first transcontinental railway. Now primarily a freight railway, the CPR was for decades the only practical means of long distance passenger transport in most regions of Canada, and was instrumental in the settlement and development of Western Canada. The CP company became one of the largest and most powerful in Canada, a position it held as late as 1975.[1] Its primary passenger services were eliminated in 1986 after being assumed by VIA Rail Canada in 1978. A beaver was chosen as the railway’s logo because it is one of the national symbols of Canada and represents the hardworking character of the company. The object of both praise and condemnation for over 120 years, the CPR remains an indisputable icon of Canadian nationalism.

The Canadian Pacific Railway is a public company with over 15,000 employees and market capitalization of 7 billion USD in 2008.[2]

Canada’s very existence depended on the successful completion of the major civil engineering project, the creation of a transcontinental railway. Creation of the Canadian Pacific Railway was a task originally undertaken for a combination of reasons by the Conservative government of Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald. British Columbia had insisted upon a transport link to the east as a condition for joining the Confederation of Canada (initially requesting a wagon road). The government however, proposed to build a railway linking the Pacific province to the eastern provinces within ten years of July 20, 1871. Macdonald also saw it as essential to the creation of a unified Canadian nation that would stretch across the continent. Moreover, manufacturing interests in Quebec and Ontario desired access to sources of raw materials and markets in Canada’s west.

The first obstacle to its construction was economic. The logical route went through the American Midwest and the city of Chicago, Illinois. In addition to the obvious difficulty of building a railroad through the Canadian Rockies, an entirely Canadian route would require crossing 1,600 km (1,000 miles) of rugged terrain of the barren Canadian Shield and muskeg of Northern Ontario. To ensure this routing, the government offered huge incentives including vast grants of land in Western Canada.

In 1872, Sir John A. Macdonald and other high-ranking politicians, swayed by bribes in the so-called Pacific Scandal, granted federal contracts to Hugh Allan’s "Canada Pacific Railway Company" (which was unrelated to the current company) and to the Inter-Ocean Railway Company. Because of this scandal, the Conservative party was removed from office in 1873. The new Liberal prime minister, Alexander Mackenzie, began construction of segments of the railway as a public enterprise under the supervision of the Department of Public Works. The Thunder Bay branch linking Lake Superior to Winnipeg was commenced in 1875. Progress was discouragingly slow because of the lack of public money. With Sir John A. Macdonald’s return to power on October 16, 1878, a more aggressive construction policy was adopted. Macdonald confirmed that Port Moody would be the terminus of the transcontinental railway, and announced that the railway would follow the Fraser and Thompson rivers between Port Moody and Kamloops. In 1879, the federal government floated bonds in London and called for tenders to construct the 206 km (128 mile) section of the railway from Yale, British Columbia to Savona’s Ferry on Kamloops Lake. The contract was awarded to Andrew Onderdonk, whose men started work on May 15, 1880. After the completion of that section, Onderdonk received contracts to build between Yale and Port Moody, and between Savona’s Ferry and Eagle Pass.

On October 21, 1880, a new syndicate, unrelated to Hugh Allan’s, signed a contract with the Macdonald government. They agreed to build the railway in exchange for ,000,000 (approximately 5,000,000 in modern Canadian dollars) in credit from the Canadian government and a grant of 25,000,000 acres (100,000 km²) of land. The government transferred to the new company those sections of the railway it had constructed under government ownership. The government also defrayed surveying costs and exempted the railway from property taxes for 20 years. The Montreal-based syndicate officially comprised five men: George Stephen, James J. Hill, Duncan McIntyre, Richard B. Angus, and John Stewart Kennedy. Donald A. Smith and Norman Kittson were unofficial silent partners with a significant financial interest. On February 15, 1881, legislation confirming the contract received royal assent, and the Canadian Pacific Railway Company was formally incorporated the next day.

The CPR started its westward expansion from Bonfield, Ontario (previously called Callander Station) where the first spike was driven into a sunken railway tie. Bonfield, Ontario was inducted into Canadian Railway Hall of Fame in 2002 as the CPR First Spike location. That was the point where the Canada Central Railway extension ended. The CCR was owned by Duncan McIntyre who amalgamated it with the CPR and became one of the handful of officers of the newly formed CPR. The CCR started in Brockville and extended to Pembroke. It then followed a westward route along the Ottawa River passing through places like Cobden, Deux-Rivières, and eventually to Mattawa at the confluence of the Mattawa and Ottawa Rivers. It then proceeded cross-country towards its final destination Bonfield (previously called Callander Station).

Duncan McIntyre and his contractor James Worthington piloted the CCR expansion. Worthington continued on as the construction superintendent for the CPR past Bonfield. He remained with the CPR for about a year until he left the company. McIntyre was uncle to John Ferguson who staked out future North Bay after getting assurance from his uncle and Worthington that it would be the divisional and a location of some importance.

It was assumed that the railway would travel through the rich "Fertile Belt" of the North Saskatchewan River valley and cross the Rocky Mountains via the Yellowhead Pass, a route suggested by Sir Sandford Fleming based on a decade of work. However, the CPR quickly discarded this plan in favour of a more southerly route across the arid Palliser’s Triangle in Saskatchewan and through Kicking Horse Pass over the Field Hill. This route was more direct and closer to the American border, making it easier for the CPR to keep American railways from encroaching on the Canadian market. However, this route also had several disadvantages.

One consequence was that the CPR would need to find a route through the Selkirk Mountains, as at the time it was not known whether a route even existed. The job of finding a pass was assigned to a surveyor named Major Albert Bowman Rogers. The CPR promised him a cheque for ,000 and that the pass would be named in his honour. Rogers became obsessed with finding the pass that would immortalize his name. He found the pass on May 29, 1881, and true to its word, the CPR named the pass "Rogers Pass" and gave him the cheque. This however, he at first refused to cash, preferring to frame it, and saying he did not do it for the money. He later agreed to cash it with the promise of an engraved watch.

Another obstacle was that the proposed route crossed land controlled by the Blackfoot First Nation. This difficulty was overcome when a missionary priest, Albert Lacombe, persuaded the Blackfoot chief Crowfoot that construction of the railway was inevitable.

In return for his assent, Crowfoot was famously rewarded with a lifetime pass to ride the CPR. A more lasting consequence of the choice of route was that, unlike the one proposed by Fleming, the land surrounding the railway often proved too arid for successful agriculture. The CPR may have placed too much reliance on a report from naturalist John Macoun, who had crossed the prairies at a time of very high rainfall and had reported that the area was fertile.

The greatest disadvantage of the route was in Kicking Horse Pass. In the first 6 km (3.7 miles) west of the 1,625 metre (5,330 ft) high summit, the Kicking Horse River drops 350 metres (1,150 ft). The steep drop would force the cash-strapped CPR to build a 7 km (4.5 mile) long stretch of track with a very steep 4.5% gradient once it reached the pass in 1884. This was over four times the maximum gradient recommended for railways of this era, and even modern railways rarely exceed a 2% gradient. However, this route was far more direct than one through the Yellowhead Pass, and saved hours for both passengers and freight. This section of track was the CPR’s Big Hill. Safety switches were installed at several points, the speed limit for descending trains was set at 10 km per hour (6 mph), and special locomotives were ordered. Despite these measures, several serious runaways still occurred. CPR officials insisted that this was a temporary expediency, but this state of affairs would last for 25 years until the completion of the Spiral Tunnels in the early 20th century.

In 1881 construction progressed at a pace too slow for the railway’s officials, who in 1882 hired the renowned railway executive William Cornelius Van Horne, to oversee construction with the inducement of a generous salary and the intriguing challenge of handling such a difficult railway project. Van Horne stated that he would have 800 km (500 miles) of main line built in 1882. Floods delayed the start of the construction season, but over 672 km (417 miles) of main line, as well as various sidings and branch lines, were built that year. The Thunder Bay branch (west from Fort William) was completed in June 1882 by the Department of Railways and Canals and turned over to the company in May 1883, permitting all-Canadian lake and rail traffic from eastern Canada to Winnipeg for the first time in Canada’s history. By the end of 1883, the railway had reached the Rocky Mountains, just eight km (5 miles) east of Kicking Horse Pass. The construction seasons of 1884 and 1885 would be spent in the mountains of British Columbia and on the north shore of Lake Superior.

Many thousands of navvies worked on the railway. Many were European immigrants. In British Columbia, the CPR hired workers from China, nicknamed coolies. A navvy received between and .50 per day, but had to pay for his own food, clothing, transportation to the job site, mail, and medical care. After two and a half months of back-breaking labour, they could net as little as . Chinese navvies in British Columbia made only between .75 and .25 a day, not including expenses, leaving barely anything to send home. They did the most dangerous construction jobs, such as working with explosives. The families of the Chinese who were killed received no compensation, or even notification of loss of life. Many of the men who survived did not have enough money to return to their families in China. Many spent years in lonely, sad and often poor conditions. Yet the Chinese were hard working and played a key role in building the western stretch of the railway; even some boys as young as 12 years old served as tea-boys.

By 1883, railway construction was progressing rapidly, but the CPR was in danger of running out of funds. In response, on January 31, 1884, the government passed the Railway Relief Bill, providing a further ,500,000 in loans to the CPR. The bill received royal assent on March 6, 1884.

In March 1885, the North-West Rebellion broke out in the District of Saskatchewan. Van Horne, in Ottawa at the time, suggested to the government that the CPR could transport troops to Qu’Appelle, Assiniboia, in eleven days. Some sections of track were incomplete or had not been used before, but the trip to Winnipeg was made in nine days and the rebellion was quickly put down. Perhaps because the government was grateful for this service, they subsequently re-organized the CPR’s debt and provided a further ,000,000 loan. This money was desperately needed by the CPR. On November 7, 1885 the Last Spike was driven at Craigellachie, British Columbia, making good on the original promise. Four days earlier, the last spike of the Lake Superior section was driven in just west of Jackfish, Ontario. While the railway was completed four years after the original 1881 deadline, it was completed more than five years ahead of the new date of 1891 that Macdonald gave in 1881.

The successful construction of such a massive project, although troubled by delays and scandal, was considered an impressive feat of engineering and political will for a country with such a small population, limited capital, and difficult terrain. It was by far the longest railway ever constructed at the time. It had taken 12,000 men, 5,000 horses, and 300 dog-sled teams to build the railway.

Meanwhile, in Eastern Canada, the CPR had created a network of lines reaching from Quebec City to St. Thomas, Ontario by 1885, and had launched a fleet of Great Lakes ships to link its terminals. The CPR had effected purchases and long-term leases of several railways through an associated railway company, the Ontario and Quebec Railway (O&Q). The O&Q built a line between Perth, Ontario, and Toronto (completed on May 5, 1884) to connect these acquisitions. The CPR obtained a 999-year lease on the O&Q on January 4, 1884. Later, in 1895, it acquired a minority interest in the Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway, giving it a link to New York and the northeast US.

So many cost-cutting shortcuts were taken in constructing the railway that regular transcontinental service could not start for another seven months while work was done to improve the railway’s condition. However, had these shortcuts not been taken, it is conceivable that the CPR might have had to default financially, leaving the railway unfinished. The first transcontinental passenger train departed from Montreal’s Dalhousie Station, located at Berri Street and Notre Dame Street on June 28, 1886 at 8:00 p.m. and arrived at Port Moody on July 4, 1886 at noon. This train consisted of two baggage cars, a mail car, one second-class coach, two immigrant sleepers, two first-class coaches, two sleeping cars, and a diner.

By that time, however, the CPR had decided to move its western terminus from Port Moody to Gastown, which was renamed "Vancouver" later that year. The first official train destined for Vancouver arrived on May 23, 1887, although the line had already been in use for three months. The CPR quickly became profitable, and all loans from the Federal government were repaid years ahead of time.

In 1888, a branch line was opened between Sudbury and Sault Ste. Marie where the CPR connected with the American railway system and its own steamships. That same year, work was started on a line from London, Ontario to the American border at Windsor, Ontario. That line opened on June 12, 1890.

The CPR also leased the New Brunswick Railway for 999 years and built the International Railway of Maine, connecting Montreal with Saint John, New Brunswick in 1889. The connection with Saint John on the Atlantic coast made the CPR the first truly transcontinental railway company and permitted trans-Atlantic cargo and passenger services to continue year-round when sea ice in the Gulf of St. Lawrence closed the port of Montreal during the winter months.

By 1896, competition with the Great Northern Railway for traffic in southern British Columbia forced the CPR to construct a second line across the province, south of the original line. Van Horne, now president of the CPR, asked for government aid, and the government agreed to provide around .6 million to construct a railway from Lethbridge, Alberta through Crowsnest Pass to the south shore of Kootenay Lake, in exchange for the CPR agreeing to reduce freight rates in perpetuity for key commodities shipped in Western Canada. The controversial Crowsnest Pass Agreement effectively locked the eastbound rate on grain products and westbound rates on certain "settlers’ effects" at the 1897 level. Although temporarily suspended during World War I, it was not until 1983 that the "Crow Rate" was permanently replaced by the Western Grain Transportation Act which allowed for the gradual increase of grain shipping prices. The Crowsnest Pass line opened on June 18, 1899.

Practically speaking, the CPR had built a railway that operated mostly in the wilderness. The usefulness of the Prairies was questionable in the minds of many. The thinking prevailed that the Prairies had great potential. Under the initial contract with the Canadian Government to build the railway, the CPR was granted 25,000,000 acres (100,000 km²). Proving already to be a very resourceful organization, Canadian Pacific began an intense campaign to bring immigrants to Canada.

Canadian Pacific agents operated in many overseas locations. Immigrants were often sold a package that included passage on a CP ship, travel on a CP train, and land sold by the CP railway. Land was priced at .50 an acre and up. Immigrants paid very little for a seven-day journey to the West. They rode in Colonist cars that had sleeping facilities and a small kitchen at one end of the car. Children were not allowed off the train, lest they wander off and be left behind. The directors of the CPR knew that not only were they creating a nation, but also a long-term source of revenue for their company.

During the first decade of the twentieth century, the CPR continued to build more lines. In 1908 the CPR opened a line connecting Toronto with Sudbury. Previously, westbound traffic originating in southern Ontario took a circuitous route through eastern Ontario.
Several operational improvements were also made to the railway in western Canada. In 1909 the CPR completed two significant engineering accomplishments. The most significant was the replacement of the Big Hill, which had become a major bottleneck in the CPR’s main line, with the Spiral Tunnels, reducing the grade to 2.2% from 4.5%. The Spiral Tunnels opened in August. On November 3, 1909, the Lethbridge Viaduct over the Oldman River valley at Lethbridge, Alberta was opened. It is 1,624 metres (5,327 ft) long and, at its maximum, 96 metres (314 ft) high, making it the longest railway bridge in Canada. In 1916 the CPR replaced its line through Rogers Pass, which was prone to avalanches, with the Connaught Tunnel, an eight km (5 mile) long tunnel under Mount Macdonald that was, at the time of its opening, the longest railway tunnel in the Western Hemisphere.

The CPR acquired several smaller railways via long-term leases in 1912. On January 3, 1912, the CPR acquired the Dominion Atlantic Railway, a railway that ran in western Nova Scotia. This acquisition gave the CPR a connection to Halifax, a significant port on the Atlantic Ocean. The Dominion Atlantic was isolated from the rest of the CPR network and used the CNR to facilitate interchange; the DAR also operated ferry services across the Bay of Fundy for passengers and cargo (but not rail cars) from the port of Digby, Nova Scotia to the CPR at Saint John, New Brunswick. DAR steamships also provided connections for passengers and cargo between Yarmouth, Boston and New York.

On July 1, 1912, the CPR acquired the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway, a railway on Vancouver Island that connected to the CPR using a railcar ferry. The CPR also acquired the Quebec Central Railway on December 14, 1912.

During the late 19th century, the railway undertook an ambitious program of hotel construction, building the Château Frontenac in Quebec City, the Royal York Hotel in Toronto, the Banff Springs Hotel, and several other major Canadian landmarks. By then, the CPR had competition from three other transcontinental lines, all of them money-losers. In 1919, these lines were consolidated, along with the track of the old Intercolonial Railway and its spurs, into the government-owned Canadian National Railways.

When World War I broke out in 1914, the CPR devoted resources to the war effort, and managed to stay profitable while its competitors struggled to remain solvent. After the war, the Federal government created Canadian National Railways (CNR, later CN) out of several bankrupt railways that fell into government hands during and after the war. CNR would become the main competitor to the CPR in Canada.

The Great Depression, which lasted from 1929 until 1939, hit many companies heavily. While the CPR was affected, it was not affected to the extent of its rival CNR because it, unlike the CNR, was debt-free. The CPR scaled back on some of its passenger and freight services, and stopped issuing dividends to its shareholders after 1932.

One highlight of the 1930s, both for the railway and for Canada, was the visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to Canada in 1939, the first time that the reigning monarch had visited the country. The CPR and the CNR shared the honours of pulling the royal train across the country, with the CPR undertaking the westbound journey from Quebec City to Vancouver.

Later that year, World War II began. As it had done in World War I, the CPR devoted much of its resources to the war effort. It retooled its Angus Shops in Montreal to produce Valentine tanks, and transported troops and resources across the country. As well, 22 of the CPR’s ships went to warfare, 12 of which were sunk.

After World War II, the transportation industry in Canada changed. Where railways had previously provided almost universal freight and passenger services, cars, trucks, and airplanes started to take traffic away from railways. This naturally helped the CPR’s air and trucking operations, and the railway’s freight operations continued to thrive hauling resource traffic and bulk commodities. However, passenger trains quickly became unprofitable.

During the 1950s, the railway introduced new innovations in passenger service, and in 1955 introduced The Canadian, a new luxury transcontinental train. However, starting in the 1960s the company started to pull out of passenger services, ending services on many of its branch lines. It also discontinued its transcontinental train The Dominion in 1966, and in 1970 unsuccessfully applied to discontinue The Canadian. For the next eight years, it continued to apply to discontinue the service, and service on The Canadian declined markedly. On October 29, 1978, CP Rail transferred its passenger services to VIA Rail, a new federal Crown corporation that is responsible for managing all intercity passenger service formerly handled by both CP Rail and CN. VIA eventually took almost all of its passenger trains, including The Canadian, off CP’s lines.

In 1968, as part of a corporate re-organization, each of the CPR’s major operations, including its rail operations, were organized as separate subsidiaries. The name of the railway was changed to CP Rail, and the parent company changed its name to Canadian Pacific Limited in 1971. Its express, telecommunications, hotel and real estate holdings were spun off, and ownership of all of the companies transferred to Canadian Pacific Investments. The company discarded its beaver logo, adopting the new Multimark logo that could be used for each of its operations.

In 1984 CP Rail commenced construction of the Mount Macdonald Tunnel to augment the Connaught Tunnel under the Selkirk Mountains. The first revenue train passed through the tunnel in 1988. At 14.7 km (9 miles), it is the longest tunnel in the Americas.

During the 1980s, the Soo Line, in which CP Rail still owned a controlling interest, underwent several changes. It acquired the Minneapolis, Northfield and Southern Railway in 1982. Then on February 21, 1985, the Soo Line obtained a controlling interest in the Milwaukee Road, merging it into its system on January 1, 1986. Also in 1980 Canadian Pacific bought out the controlling interests of the Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway (TH&B) from Conrail and molded it into the Canadian Pacific System, dissolving the TH&B’s name from the books in 1985. In 1987 most of CPR’s trackage in the Great Lakes region, including much of the original Soo Line, were spun off into a new railway, the Wisconsin Central, which was subsequently purchased by CN.

Influenced by the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement of 1989 which liberalized trade between the two nations, the CPR’s expansion continued during the early 1990s: CP Rail gained full control of the Soo Line in 1990, and bought the Delaware and Hudson Railway in 1991. These two acquisitions gave CP Rail routes to the major American cities of Chicago (via the Soo Line) and New York City (via the D&H).

During the next few years CP Rail downsized its route, and several Canadian branch lines were either sold to short lines or abandoned. This included all of its lines east of Montreal, with the routes operating across Maine and New Brunswick to the port of Saint John (operating as the Canadian Atlantic Railway) being sold or abandoned, severing CPR’s transcontinental status (in Canada); the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway in the late 1950s, coupled with subsidized icebreaking services, made Saint John surplus to CPR’s requirements. During the 1990s, both CP Rail and CN attempted unsuccessfully to buy out the eastern assets of the other, so as to permit further rationalization. As well, it closed divisional and regional offices, drastically reduced white collar staff, and consolidated its Canadian traffic control system in Calgary, Alberta.

Finally, in 1996, reflecting the increased importance of western traffic to the railway, CP Rail moved its head office to Calgary from Montreal and changed its name back to Canadian Pacific Railway. A new subsidiary company, the St. Lawrence and Hudson Railway, was created to operate its money-losing lines in eastern North America, covering Quebec, Southern and Eastern Ontario, trackage rights to Chicago, Illinois, as well as the Delaware and Hudson Railway in the U.S. Northeast. However, the new subsidiary, threatened with being sold off and free to innovate, quickly spun off losing track to short lines, instituted scheduled freight service, and produced an unexpected turn-around in profitability. After only four years, CPR revised its opinion and the StL&H formally re-amalgamated with its parent on January 1, 2001.

In 2001, the CPR’s parent company, Canadian Pacific Limited, spun off its five subsidiaries, including the CPR, into independent companies. Canadian Pacific Railway formally (but, not legally) shortened its name to Canadian Pacific in early 2007, dropping the word "railway" in order to reflect more operational flexibility. Shortly after the name revision, Canadian Pacific announced that it had committed to becoming a major sponsor and logistics provider to the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, British Columbia.

On September 4, 2007, CPR announced it was acquiring the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad from its present owners, London-based Electra Private Equity.[3] The transaction is an "end-to-end" consolidation,[4][5] and will give CPR access to U.S. shippers of agricultural products, ethanol, and coal. CPR has stated its intention to use this purchase to gain access to the rich coal fields of Wyoming’s Powder River Basin. The purchase price is US.48 billion, and future payments of over US.0 billion contingent on commencement of construction on the smaller railroad’s Powder River extension and specified volumes of coal shipments from the Powder River basin.[4] The transaction was subject to approval of the U.S. Surface Transportation Board (STB), which was expected to take a year.[4] On October 4, 2007, CPR announced it has completed the financial transactions required for the acquisition, placing the DM&E and IC&E in a voting trust with Richard Hamlin appointed as the trustee. CPR planned to integrate the railroads’ operations once the STB approves the acquisition.[6] The merger was completed as of October 31, 2008.[7]

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Many homeowners want to refinance their home loans right now due to the near record low interest rates that are available. However, around only 1 in 3 refinancing applications are actually approved with the rest either being denied, or returned as incomplete. Here is some advice for homeowners looking to refinance that will help ensure they get a mortgage refinancing approval on the first try.

Always Be Prepared
While this sounds easy, many homeowners are not ready with the proper paperwork and other financial information that is needed. The biggest reason applications are returned to homeowners is due to lack of proper documentation. Homeowners need to make sure they know what will be required, gather the proper documents ahead of time, review them for errors and accuracy, and then apply for mortgage refinancing. Being prepared and ready will make the lender or banks job much easier and they will appreciate that. Many homeowners can easily get an approval, yet do not have the required information and end up wasting everyones time. Being prepared is one of the best ways to ensure that your application for mortgage refinancing gets approved on the first try.

Understand What You Want from Mortgage Refinancing
Do you want to save money every month? Are you looking to get cash back from your homes equity and refinancing? Want to change the length of your current home loan? Each homeowner has different wants and needs when refinancing a mortgage. There are many options that exist and having a refinancing goal will help a homeowner find the right solution for them. Once the proper type of mortgage refinancing is found, the application process should go smoothly from there as everyone involved will have a good understanding of the overall situation by then.

Shop Around and Ask Questions
Many homeowners only goto one lender or bank to see what mortgage refinancing options they have. This is a huge mistake. Many lenders and banks have requirements, interest rates, terms and conditions that vary greatly from one another. Homeowners can ask what will be required or needed for their specific situation to help make sure they do indeed qualify. Sometimes mortgage lenders and banks are very strict but may offer slightly lower interest rates. Other lenders or banks offer interest rates that are a little bit higher, but easier to get into. Homeowners should compare a variety of mortgage lenders and banks to find the best fit for them to help make sure their mortgage refinancing application has no problems getting approved on the first try.

While these tips sound easy, and maybe common sense, many homeowners do not properly prepare for mortgage refinancing and waste a lot of time with denials or returned applications. Do not waste anyones time, including your own, and prepare the right way for a home mortgage refinance. By preparing, you are ensuring that you have no application problems and find the right home loan refinance for your situation.

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