Australia is “the lucky country”. Mineral rich Australians bask in the glow of their God-given place in the sun. Whenever the Australian economy has been in deep strife with a dreadful current account and a collapsing currency.
Year: 2000
Free up Hydro with Alaska-Style Heritage Fund
Selling Manitoba Hydro is smart public policy. Using the proceeds to endow individual citizens is an imaginative framework for the privatization.
*We need a maxi-plan, not a mini-budget
Tomorrow, Paul Martin will be delivering a fiscal update but, unlike other years, it will include a mini-budget. Hopefully, “mini” won’t be the guiding objective for establishing a direction for Canada’s budgetary stance. What we need is a “maxi” plan to address the critical long-term economic issues faced by Canada.
Follow the Swedish Model and Keep the VON
An important lesson fron Sweden’s healthcare reforms is their salutary effects on worker performance. We should contract more services to outside providers, not fewer.
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How to Turn Free Citizens Into Compliant Serfs
Free citizens have minds of their own and want to pursue their lives as they see fit. This is inconvenient for the elites, who wish to be in charge of everyone’s lives so that they can show their superiority and gain benefit for themselves and their friends. So the...
Demographia International Housing Affordability – 2023 Edition Released
Demographia International Housing Affordability rates middle-income housing affordability in 94 major housing markets in eight nations: Australia, Canada, China, Ireland, New Zealand, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States. This edition covers the third...
Manitoba NDP’s Labour Conundrum
New legal privileges for organized labour in Manitoba are shortsighted.
Public Sector vs Private Sector Union Membership by Province (FC000)
Statistics showing union density in Canada heavily skewed toward public sector.
Hog Subsidies vs Comparative Advantage
The spectacular growth in Manitoba’s hog industry is the result of natural economic advantages, allowed to demonstrate themselves when the government gets out of the way.
A Conversation with David Beito
They were tremendously important. If you wanted to find where the center of community was in an urban neighbourhood or a small town you would often go to the lodge.
Welfare Before Government Welfare
It makes sense for people to make provision for their welfare, and they did it through mutual-aid societies.
Internet Starts Shattering Low-Performance Public Policy Paradigm
What will governments do for revenue when commerce moves into venues that are impossible to tax?
*A Second Go at a “Second Economic Revolution”?
On March 6, 1997, in the annual state-of-Russia address to the Federal Assembly, President Boris Yeltsin outlined a package of reforms that some Russian observers called a second economic revolution.
Voucher Schools Keep Costs Low
While the annual cost per student in the Milwaukee Public Schools is about $9,500, many of the private schools that participate in the city’s voucher program had trouble spending even half that amount.
Medical Savings Accounts Offer Way Out Of Healthcare Mess
A decentralized delivery model could solve most of Medicare’s problems.