In my latest National Post column I say efforts to “stimulate” the “economy” with public or private debt when the problem is a lot of people not out creating wealth because COVID-19 has them sick or quarantined shows the foolishness of conventional macroeconomics.
In my latest National Post column I say two elite liberal American journalists dividing $500 million by 327 million on national TV and getting one million dollars is both funny and tragic.
In my latest National Post column I say the decision by Warren Buffett to pull his $4 billion stake in a Quebec LNG plant, plus Teck abandoning its Frontier mine, is a scary and overdue intrusion of reality into the increasingly make-believe world of Canadian public policy.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say the fate of Tom Steyer and Michael Bloomberg in the Democratic primaries proves yet again that the widespread fear of money in politics is just paranoia.
“economists are not trying to explain human behavior but to predict what changes will occur, at the margin, in human behavior if the costs and benefits of alternative courses of action change.”
James Q. Wilson and Richard Herrnstein Crime and Human Nature