“Hale says the US confronts a dual crisis of economics and governance with climate change relegated to a minority issue. “America seems crippled by the fiscal crisis,” he says.”
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Align Public Sector Incentives With the Private Sector: How to make government work long-term
If Canadian governments wish to rein in spending and avoid long-term liabilities, put public sector pensions on a track to matching contributions, not defined benefits, says Mark Milke.
Zero Budget Growth
“Over the past hundred years, government has grown to gigantic proportions. It intervenes in almost every aspect of our lives.”
The Gluttony of Governments
“One of the worst by-products — among many — of the rapid expansion of government in the past 50 years has been the politicization of everything, including aspects of personal daily life that government has no business in.”
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How the Prairie Provinces Can Benefit from an Improved Trans-Pacific Partnership
The Trans-Pacific Partnership was one of the world’s most ambitious trade deals. The agreement between Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam and the United States was signed on February 4, 2016. Its goal was...
Social Conflict Abridged: From Unperceived Injuries to Claiming—What is Conflict?
Societies today are in a state of flux influenced by myriad factors—globalization versus nationalism, liberalization versus traditional values, and immigration versus closed borders. Some people perceive that an injustice has been committed against them while others...
Blowing Up The WTO
Carbon tariff regimes are recipes for global trade wars. Any attempt by Canada to impose a tariff to offset developing country regulatory practice would contravene global trade law. To figure out the appropriate tax level would require a mind-blowingly elaborate carbon-measurement scheme, created on a global scale.
Has His Reason
As an economics professor at the Naval Postgraduate School and former advisor to President Reagan, Henderson shatters the stereotype that individuals who comprise the anti-war movement all drive hybrids and listen to NPR.
But capitalism and non-interventionist foreign policy go hand-in-hand, he says. Just as the government shouldn’t intervene in the economic affairs of its own citizens, he says, it also shouldn’t intervene in the political affairs of foreign nations.
Victoria Unlocks Vast Tracts For Housing
Australia’s State cabinet decided to speed up the release of residential land after receiving what one Government insider dubbed a “big wake-up call” about the extent of Melbourne’s population boom. Premier John Brumby will announce today that all available land within Melbourne’s urban growth boundary will be zoned residential — one of the biggest land releases in the city’s history — in a bid to give more young families and first-time buyers the chance to get into the property market.
Huge Antarctic Ice Sheet Collapse Story Debunked
“Huge Antarctic ice-sheet disintegrates” shrieked the headlines.
Climate Facts To Warm To
According to this report in the Australian newspaper, “global warming hype and hysteria are falling apart, but most media won’t report it.”
The New Road to Serfdom
Why would governments support the theory of potentially disastrous man-made climate change? It was a combination of the success of the environmental Left — in particular activist non-governmental organizations — in stoking the concerns of the electorate, and of the desire of bureaucrats and policy-makers to stay relevant, busy and in power.
Fed’s Innovative – Or Hazardous – Strategy
>The Federal Reserve had to do some fancy footwork Friday to rush its margin support to Bear Stearns, judging by a sketch of the operation provided by a senior Fed staffer. David Henderson, a research fellow with Stanford’s Hoover Institution, said the Fed should let Bear Stearns fail because all the investments involved are complex financial paper being swapped back and forth among high-rollers who are capable of working out deals themselves.
True North Strong and Rolling In Cash
Taken together, the federal, provincial and territorial governments produced this country's first $30-billion budgetary surplus in fiscal 2006-07, the biggest single-year surplus in Canadian history. This is a great deal of discretionary cash. For $30-billion, you...
Freedom Means Responsibility
Former Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern explores freedom of choice in the Wall Street Journal. Worth-Look.