“that scarce resource Love.”

Dennis Robertson, urging economists to find ways to minimize the demands public policy places on altruism, quoted in James Buchanan What Should Economists Do?

"To predict the broad developments of the future is no more of a tour de force than to divine those of the past.... If past events have left their traces, it is reasonable to imagine that those still to come have their roots."

Honoré de Balzac, quoted in Leonard Silk The Economists

In my latest National Post column I say we’re back in the deficit handbasket despite economic theory and the painful experience of the past half century because we’re being bribed.

In my latest Loonie Politics column I condemn the Liberals for promising us the moon on health care and climate without explaining how they’ll lasso it and haul it down or why, if they know how to perform such lovely miracles, they didn’t do either at any point during their past four years in power.

In BOE Report I argue that the real lesson of climate hypocrisy by celebrities and activists who praise alternative fuels while burning the old-fashioned kind is less that the flesh is weak than that wind and solar are.