In my latest National Post commentary I warn the federal Liberals not to mishandle the problems of Alberta and Bombardier respectively in ways that remind us of Brian Mulroney’s disastrous 1986 decision to shift the CF-18 maintenance contract from Winnipeg to Montreal.
Later this month Brigitte and I will be in Edmonton to take part in the "Essentials of Freedom" conference organized by our friend Danny Hozack. You can find more information about the event, and the other fine speakers, here.
In my latest National Post commentary, I say New Brunswick's latest budget is dangerously ordinary.
In my latest National Post commentary, I warn that the Liberals may be creating a pipeline policy where approval is impossible.
In my latest National Post commentary, I criticize the federal Liberals’ sweet-sounding lack of stand on the Trans-Pacific Partnership. To govern is to choose, and since they did win the election they better figure it out pronto.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9jZPPbP3Uo If only life’s problems had simple solutions, we sigh. But often they do. Not easy ones, but simple ones, as Ronald Reagan liked to say. And nowhere is it more true than in economics, where we really do know what works and, more importantly, what doesn’t.
There’s even a simple way to get on top of it that actually is easy: Read Henry Hazlitt’s classic, plain-language, common sense Economics in One Lesson. It’s 70 years old now but still absolutely timely because we keep making the same simple mistakes.
Not to worry, if we give up that bad habit we’ll still have plenty to bicker about in foreign and social policy. But in economics, there are simple solutions. Read Hazlitt and you’ll know what they are.
It gives me great pleasure to announce the first installment of “Been There, Done That… Shouldn’t Have”, a print and video commentary for the Economic Education Association of Alberta’s “Freedom Talk”. One of the most frustrating things about economic policy is we’re not even making new mistakes, just repeating old ones we forgot about. Sometimes so old they were first made in Latin. That’s why the focus of the series will be stories from economic history and, sometimes, mythology as well, to remind us that on at least 90 percent of the policies labeled bold and new we’ve been there, we’ve done that and we shouldn’t have. You can find them on the Freedom Talk site, of course, and we hope you’ll want to share them with your friends and help us keep the series going.
Very interesting Washington Post piece about the security of the Internet and the "Internet of things" largely based on Linux, given the eccentricities of Linux' founder and the incentives that don't operate when people are giving stuff away rather than selling it. Read that alongside Ted Koppel's piece (in Thursday's National Post among other places) about the vulnerability of America's power infrastructure (and ours, I assure you) and you might well conclude with Woody that "This is the perfect time to panic."
But don't worry if you miss it. You'll get another chance.