Reading Time: 4 minutes Central banks – try as they might – can’t create genuine cryptocurrencies and should learn to live with rising competition
Tag: Government debt and deficit
Municipal governments should do less and spend less
Reading Time: 3 minutes The surest way to trim the bloated costs of municipal services is to privatize them. Competition drives costs down and quality up
Government debt will worsen the next recession
Reading Time: 3 minutes Governments around the world will go into the next recession with fewer economic management tools at their disposal
Canada’s public sector is getting fatter, and that’s bad news
Reading Time: 3 minutes Instead of climbing out of debt, federal and provincial governments are spending more, to the detriment of the economy
What every business can learn from Alberta’s failures
Reading Time: 4 minutes Add value, diversify, take control of your destiny, do long-term planning and be fiscally responsible
Trade, deficit reduction and tax reform critical as recession looms
Reading Time: 3 minutes The federal government must act quickly on 3 fronts if it is to head off economic disaster
Death and taxes: the fundamental unfairness of taxing estates
Reading Time: 3 minutes We already have too many taxes in Canada. And they tend to be unfair, inefficient and oppressive. We don’t need another
The Liberal government’s tax plan a failure
Reading Time: 3 minutes Politicians treat successful Canadians as natural resources to be annually harvested and squeezed for as much money as possible
Powerful government unions weaken the economy
Reading Time: 3 minutes While the U.S. is curtailing the strength of such unions, Canadian government finances are stretched by the cost of public-sector workers
Equalization hurts every Canadian
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s time to get past political posturing and regional protectionism and reform the national equalization payment program