The "Other Saskatchewan" – CCPA
Reproduced below is a 2011 Saskatchewan Budget Response by Dr. Simon Enoch, CCPA Saskatchewan: The “Other Saskatchewan” A Budget Response by CCPA Saskatchewan by Simon Enoch March 24, 2011 If…
Economics
Open letter to Premier Brad Wall – CPP Improvements
Today I sent the following "open letter" to Saskatchewan Premier, Brad Wall respecting proposed improvements to the Canada Pension Plan (CPP). It is self explanatory: (PDF version here) March 18,…
Happy International Women’s Day!
Oh, the regina mom‘s been a busy woman this past year! Marketing a book takes time and energy in the planning and carrying out. Needless to say, this blog has…
Be Heard on March 3rd: No Stealth Fighters
Ceasefire.ca, the public arm of the Rideau Institute, in conjunction with rabble.ca has stated that March 3rd is the official day of action for all those who want to speak…
The Deficit Kings
When I read Brian Mulroney giving Harper advice to "do something big," I laughed. First I thought perhaps Mulroney meant taking in a $300,000 bribe, lying about it, and then…
How Libertarians brought America big religion and bigger lawsuits…
(originally written Nov 2; posted Nov 16) It looks like the Democrats are going to get clobbered in next week’s tomorrow’s today’s US elections. Economic malaise tends to do this…
Diminishing returns on increased complexity in financial markets…
My brother forwarded me this article in the Financial Times recently. Superficially about the fall of Rome and other civilizations, as chronicled by Joseph Tainter’s Collapse of Complex Societies, it…
On cooperatives and housing.
I'll get back to my electoral series eventually, I swear. But I had this weird idea today and I wanted to spell it out. It's not an argument; more just…
On the new feudalism.
I was going to blog something about the CMA’s recent report on Canadian healthcare. But there’s really not much there that anyone could reasonably disagree with. More access to prescription…
What the hell do I know?
“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”Galileo Galilei You know sometimes I just have to stop and think and think hard…
Liberals Flunk Economics
Or so Zogby would have you believe. They did a poll where they made statements about “basic economic” issues and saw that the left-leaning people got the answers wrong. Now,…
Liberals Flunk Economics
Or so Zogby would have you believe.They did a poll where they made statements about "basic economic" issues and saw that the left-leaning people got the answers wrong.Now, you're probably…
Liberals Flunk Economics
Or so Zogby would have you believe. They did a poll where they made statements about “basic economic” issues and saw that the left-leaning people got the answers wrong. Now,…
Liberals Flunk Economics
Or so Zogby would have you believe.They did a poll where they made statements about "basic economic" issues and saw that the left-leaning people got the answers wrong.Now, you're probably…
First the Recession didn’t exist…
First the recession didn't even exist (No recession for Canada, er.. well maybe a "technical" one), and now the recession is going away.yep, ok, uh-huh, sure, I believe you StevieAfter…
First the Recession didn’t exist…
First the recession didn’t even exist (No recession for Canada, er.. well maybe a “technical” one), and now the recession is going away. yep, ok, uh-huh, sure, I believe you…
First the Recession didn’t exist…
First the recession didn’t even exist (No recession for Canada, er.. well maybe a “technical” one), and now the recession is going away. yep, ok, uh-huh, sure, I believe you…