A man waits outside a store advertising a sale of up to 50 per cent off at the McArthurGlen Designer Outlet on Boxing Day in Richmond, B.C., on Tuesday, December 26, 2023. Ethan Cairns/The Canadian Press.

Pourquoi le libéralisme économique demeure important

Nos dirigeants civiques et politiques, ainsi que nos fonctionnaires, pourraient faire bien pire que de revisiter Smith, Hayek, Friedman et d’autres défenseurs du libéralisme économique pour y puiser les vérités intemporelles que ceux-ci ont découvertes et exposées.

In this photo taken on Wednesday, July 1, 2015, pensioners try to get a number to enter inside a bank in Athens. Daniel Ochoa de Olza/AP Photo.

How austerity saved Greece

Such as in Greece following the 2008 financial collapse, austerity programs are only necessary when governments make economic policy mistakes that can no longer be ignored.

Protesters interrupt a speech by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Montreal, on Tuesday, December 6, 2022. Paul Chiasson/The Canadian Press

The Roundtable: Is Canada broken?

This episode of Hub Rountable focuses on the malaise permeating in Canada and its dire consequences on politics and the national mood. They also discuss the World Economic Forum’s 2024 meeting and whether we are in a post-Davos era.

This picture taken on Thursday, May 26, 2016, shows the statue of Adam Smith in front of St. Giles cathedral on “Royal Mile” during a rainy day in Edinburgh, Scotland. Dorothee Thiesing/AP Photo.

Who is the greatest economist of all time?

Tyler Cowen lays down a few criteria to get past the problem of political bias. Any candidate for the GOAT prize must be original, of great historical importance, a carrier of essential ideas, and know lots of micro and macro theory and empirics.

Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland makes an investment announcement with Entropy, a carbon capture and sequestration company in Calgary on Wednesday, December 20, 2023. Todd Korol/The Canadian Press.

The carbon tax has ‘outlived its political welcome’: The best comments from Hub readers this week

To start the new year, Hub readers discussed many topics over the past week, including a secret report documented by a British Ambassador and what it reveals about Canada, the country’s fiscal outlook, the Canadian legacy media and the Online News Act, Saskatchewan’s cancelling of the carbon tax, and the state of the country’s stagnant economy and finances.