Quantitative easing doesn’t have to be about money printing. Instead, it could be about simply changing the type of government debt that exists. With less long-term borrowing, long-term interest rates tend to fall.
Now, as the post-pandemic economy roars to the extent that inflation has become a serious problem, some right-of-centre thinkers are yanking the reins on these new market-skeptical ideas.
This episode features Sean Speer in conversation with Cato Institute scholar Scott Lincicome about why government intervention in the labour force is often a fool’s errand and why market-based solutions are actually better for workers in the long run.
The economist Joel Waldfogel wrote in 1993 about the “deadweight loss” inherent to gift-giving. He argues that we don’t know each other well enough to be precise with our gifts.
Yes, we should prefer the things we buy are not made in countries that are scheming to destroy us. No, we should not prefer they are made in Ontario.
Spending more time at work worrying about your TFSA? You probably are not alone.
Poilievre’s speech in the House of Commons travelled the same terrain as the ones he delivered during the Conservative leadership race, taking aim at gatekeepers of all kinds and promising to restrain government spending, but it also illuminated some key areas of agreement and disagreement with his political adversaries.
We are in the curious position of being one of the biggest spenders on health in the developed world and yet marked by growing shortages of services as well as mediocre performance on many health indicator outcomes compared to countries that are spending less than we do.
The aftermath of Liz Truss’s disastrous mini-budget in the U.K. has cast a shadow over Canadian fiscal and monetary policy.
If the Bank of Canada is too cautious, inflation could continue to rise and spiral out of control.
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