In my latest National Post column I wish news stories would more often refer to government spending being cut, especially by contrast with the lurid and generally inaccurate "slashed".

"When the economic chickens come home to roost, they tend to arrive in flocks."

Editorial in National Post August 12, 2015

"Economics is a science which studies human behavior as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses."

Lionel Robbins
 

In my latest National Post column I say you don't get the poor nice things, including trendy ones like organic food, by price controls that crush entrepreneurs.

“in all their actions all men do in fact aim at what they think good.”

Aristotle The Politics

"mathematical economics is what is called in criminal circles 'a racket.'"

Stephen Leacock "Through a Glass Darkly” in On the Front Line of Life

"He fell so hard for her, he even lost his balance at the bank."

Kirk Kirkpatrick, quoted in The Write File Quarterly Issue #5, Summer 1995

In my latest National Post column I ask whether the purpose of "uniting the right" in Alberta was to implement conservative policies or to bury them.