by Henry Oliner | Feb 5, 2022 | Media, Politics, Progressivism
From Glenn Harlan Reynolds at New York Post, Truckers are starting a working-class revolution — and the left hates it: A working-class revolution led by the working class is the left’s worst nightmare because the working class doesn’t want what the left wants. The...
by Henry Oliner | Apr 21, 2013 | Economics
Tips to Mark Perry at Carpe Diem for pointing to this speech given by Canadian Parliament member Pierre Poilievre. We Americans think we get the capitalist thing right but we clearly have something to learn from our neighbor to the north, and this is not just a...
by Henry Oliner | Aug 4, 2012 | Economics
Economist Mark Perry writes in The American in 2/26/2010 Due North: Canada’s Marvelous Mortgage and Banking System. Excerpts: And this recent financial crisis isn’t the first time that Canada’s banking system showed greater signs of stability and less exposure to...
by Henry Oliner | May 25, 2012 | Economics, Economy
The default belief of our economic history of the last 100 years has been an acceptance of the dynamic growth of capitalism punctuated by excesses of market greed that have to be corrected by the singular wisdom of government regulation. On closer examination many of...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 14, 2011 | Economics
While we restrain oil production in this country, Canada is tapping their resource with new found vigor. Mary Anastasia O’Grady writes in the 9/12/2011 Wall Street Journal, Canada’s Oil Sands Are a Jobs Gusher. Excerpt: Having spent an hour the day before...