Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Nick Bunker points out that there's much more to an economic recovery than nominal GDP - with labour's share of growth serving as…
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Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- David MacDonald argues that the federal budget should focus on desperately-needed public investments - with any revenue issues dealt with by raising taxes…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- James Ayre points out Radoslaw Stefanski's study as to how cutting off fossil fuel subsidies subsidies (among other public policy preferences) would go a…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Harry Leslie Smith writes about the problems with a U.K. budget and economic plan designed to avoid any moral compass:Nothing better illustrates to me…
On gross excesses
It shouldn't be news to anybody interested in climate change (and the Wall government's role in exacerbating it) that Saskatchewan has a shameful track record in polluting our atmosphere. But…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Jim Stanford offers a warning to Australia about Canada's history of gratuitous corporate tax giveaways:(S)uccessive cuts reduced combined Canadian corporate taxes (including provincial…
Someone forgot the United Way update again
Shorter Brad Wall:I plan to use every means at my disposal to personally veto any national plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions. But since somebody mentioned pipelines, the idea of…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Steve Roth discusses how inequality and excessive concentration of wealth result in less growth for everybody - even as the researchers finding that…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Katie Hyslop contrasts Canada's longstanding recognition that housing is a human right against the gross lack of policy action to ensure its availability:Canada has…
New column day
Here, on Brad Wall's preference for unethical oil over sustainable development.For further reading...- Again, Shawn McCarthy reported here on Wall's new declaration that he won't accept carbon pricing or regulation…
Shocked, I say
Surely nobody could have predicted that a federal climate change plan of doing no more than every province would accept would be doomed as long as Brad Wall has anything…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Claire Provost writes that corporate trade agreements are designed to make it more difficult to pursue fair tax systems:Governments must be able to change…
On delayed rectification
I'll largely echo David Climenhaga's take on Alberta's oil and gas royalty review (PDF). But it's well worth highlighting the difference between the two main interpretations of the review's recommendations…
Compare and contrast
One option in responding to a precipitous decline in commodity prices which has exposed a province's overreliance on resource extraction is to work on developing an economy which isn't so…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Joseph Stiglitz comments on how the Trans-Pacific Partnership looks to make democracy subordinate to corporate interests:The US concluded secret negotiations on what may turn…
New column day
Here, expanding on this post about Brad Wall's sad attempt to beg Justin Trudeau for federal money to make up for his own mismanagement. For further reading...- Once again, Wall's…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Matthew Yglesias writes that The Big Short and other stories focused on the financial aspects of the 2008 economic meltdown miss by far…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Andrew Jackson makes the case for a federal budget aimed at boosting investment in Canada's economy:Public infrastructure investment has a much greater short…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Paul Edwards discusses the availability of a gradual transition to clean energy while avoiding more than 2 degrees of climate change - but…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Paul Krugman reviews Robert Reich's upcoming book, with a particular focus on the connection between corporate power and growing inequality:...Reich makes a very good…