En route to obtaining his back-dated, life-long Canadian citizenship, Will Wilkinson, a research fellow at Washington's Cato Institute, and one of the sharpest young policy minds around, dropped by to visit at the Prosperity Institute. Back home ...
Hard to believe, as we enter a thoroughly globalized world in 2009, that as an elementary-school student, I crouched under my desk every time an air-raid siren pierced the unsteady calm. I was born in 1957, the year of Sputnik, and my first political ...
Hard to believe, as we enter a thoroughly globalized world in 2009, that as an elementary-school student, I crouched under my desk every time an air-raid siren pierced the unsteady calm. I was born in 1957, the year of Sputnik, and my first political ...
President-elect Barack Obama has announced his intention to restart the American economy with hundreds of billions in new spending on transportation, public works and energy. Ever since John Maynard Keynes, economists have seen such fiscal stimulus as ...
If a recession hits Canada, as many think is already the case, will its turbulence affect all of us in the same way? Not if past history is a guide. The good news is that it's likely that the continuing shift in our economy from traditional blue-collar, ...
Two years ago almost to the day, I sat at a coffee shop in Washington, D.C., talking about the upcoming U.S. election with a good friend who was an editor at a major political monthly. Though never a fan of George W. Bush, I suggested that the ...
Where we reside has more and more relevance to the kinds of work available to us. In a large number of professions, jobs have become geographically specialized that is, they are increasingly concentrating in certain places. Place can also largely ...
This week, the mayor of Canada's biggest city did something remarkable: He basically declared war on firearms. In response to several highly publicized shootings, David Miller announced that he wants Toronto's City Council to crack down on gun clubs, ...
It's a mantra of the age of globalization that place doesn't matter. Technology has leveled the global playing field--the world is flat. "When the world is flat," says New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, "you can innovate without having to ...
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