“Milton Friedman: … There’s a phrase written on the entrance to one of the social sciences buildings at the University of Chicago, which is the statement … Rose Friedman: If you can’t measure it, measure it anyway. Milton Friedman: Actually, it was: ‘When you cannot measure something, your knowledge is meager and unsatisfying.’”
An Economic Freedom of the World network meeting in 2001, quoted in Fraser Forum May 2002.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say even more worrying than the WE scandal antics is the public sector insouciantly taking massive paid leaves and giving itself big raises during the private sector pandemic crisis.
“In truth, the problems facing France are difficult, but not profound.”
News story in Globe & Mail May 7, 2007
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“‘In any look toward 2050, you have the problem of trying to calculate how many babies those who are currently unborn are going to be having. You can’t do that.’”
Nicholas Eberstadt, quoted in “The Population Dud,” The Catholic World Report, May, 2002 according to Gilbert! Magazine Vol. 5 #8 (July/August 2002)
In my latest National Post column I say apologies are nice, at least some of them, but what really matters is whether like Scrooge the person who claims to see the error of their ways leads a different life afterward.
In my latest National Post column I say if we let our leaders get away with obvious lies it will prove fatal to self-government. And sorry, I’m two days late posting it so the column is missing the latest greasy twists and turns, but they only add to the list of obvious lies told after another.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I explain how our finance minister can look so happy over his appalling fiscal “snapshot”.