“Does your garage door put the ugh in ugly?”

Crawford Door Sales ad on NBC 14/4/90

In my latest National Post column I say with increasing rates of vaccination and between waves, we should have a relaxed and rational discussion about when, if and why we’d go into another lockdown.

In my latest National Post column I express enthusiasm for freedom in Cuba… and Canada.

“It is not a universal advantage in situations of conflict to be inalienably and manifestly rational in decision and motivation.”

2005 Nobel Prize in Economics winner Thomas Schelling quoted in National Post October 11, 2005

In my latest Loonie Politics column I confront Amazon about its dysfunctional dependence on Chinese manufacturers and their Communist overlords.

In my latest National Post column I say churches should not get tax breaks, not because of residential schools but because nobody should.

“It is not only that man wants to be free; it is that he must have pride in his work and be fairly recompensed for its value – or sooner rather than later he will simply cease to be productive no matter what pressures are applied to make him work.”

Thibaut de Saint Phalle, Trade, Inflation, and the Dollar

In 1890 Swedish economist Knut Wicksell “argued that if governments ran deficits then citizens were not being clear information about the costs and benefits of programmes which they were being asked to support as voters… If much of the cost could be transferred to a subsequent generation, citizens would select more government expenditure than if they had to carry the true costs of the benefits they received. This commitment to a balanced budget was not as naïve or rigid as some modern commentators like to suggest.”

Roger Douglas Unfinished Business