I first read Thomas E. Woods in his book Meltdown, which I reviewed two years ago. Hi most recent book, Rollback, attempts to lay out a process by which America – and by extension many western countries, including Canada – can reduce the size of government and remove many of the ways the government interferes …
Category Archive: Economics
Aug 07
Mark Cuban on Patent Law
Mark Cuban has a very good post recommending improvements to the patent law system. While his reference is clearly the US patent system, this applies to most of the patent laws around the world, including here in Canada. I would add one more thing to Mr. Cuban’s short list of fixes. While he focuses on …
Aug 06
On Infrastructure Spending in Calgary
Although it has passed from the daily news in the City of Calgary, we still have a budget problem. The municipal government is spending too much money and is having to raise property taxes steeply to pay for it all. Municipal politicians, such as Mayor Nenshi, continue complain that cities should be given more …
Jul 11
Santelli on the US Debt Ceiling
Rick Santelli goes on a classic rant: He clearly points out that the US Government must start to live within the revenue it has, and not just reduce the growth in government spending, but actually reduce spending and come up with a real plan to balance the budget. The other folks in that vi deo …
Jun 19
Could be about Canadian Health care
Small Dead Animals points us to an excellent column in the Telegraph, which points out that we need honesty and hard decisions on the health care system – and that while right leaning politicians know the right answer, they are too afraid to speak to us like adults. I raised this during the 2011 federal …
Jun 16
A Lesson for Canada’s Dairy Industry
And for the Government of Canada. The Economist, in the Monday 20 June 2011 print edition, has an article on the success of New Zealand’s agricultural exports. Some 25 years ago, the NZ government, in a spate of government cuts, dismantled the supply management system that had coddled various agricultural businesses for decades. The result? …
Jun 16
IPCC fiction, again
Steve McIntyre has again identified that the UN IPCC is making things up, and publishing them as “facts” when there is no supporting evidence whatsoever. Further, he points out that this claim: Close to 80 percent of the world‘s energy supply could be met by renewables by mid-century if backed by the right enabling public …
Jun 15
The failure to explain Capitalism
I have noticed in recent years that some new graduates of university do not understand capitalism. A recent posting by John Westover, entitled The Forgotten Member of the Triple Bottom Line, brought these thoughts forward in my mind. John explains that our educational system has indoctrinated (my word, not his) our young people about the …
May 12
Rescind duties/taxes at the border
Matt Gurney has a good column in the National Post. But he fails to point out the most obvious reason to rescind these duties/and taxes. It costs more to enforce and collect them than it is worth to the state. CBSA collects a small sum, estimated by some to be less than $200 million dollars …