Tag: debt

Parties are out-competing themselves in massive giveaways in the belief that deficit spending has no economic cost, writes Jack Mintz ...

The high level of government debt in Canada, when the economy is recovering rapidly, reflects an unwillingness to make hard ...

What kind of shape would the federal and provincial governments be in if the cost of borrowing were two percentage ...

Photo by Joseph Morris At some point, Freeland will have to tell us we can’t spend what we can’t afford, ...

The Trudeau government seems bent on bribing voters with mountains of new debt that it will leave for others to ...

Hiking taxes is the worst economic choice to achieve both growth and fiscal sustainability, writes Jack Mintz in the Financial ...

MLI senior fellow Philip Cross appeared on BNN Bloomberg to discuss the testimony of Evan Siddall, the president and CEO ...

Add it all up and Canada’s debt burden is $3.2 trillion. That’s 166 per cent of GDP — fully four ...

The ’90s deficit fighting solution of downloading won’t have the same impact this time. Federal spending and size of government ...

Countries with highly leveraged households, corporations and public sectors will face financial instability as credit spreads widen and currencies devalue, ...

The focus should be on education, growth-enhancing public infrastructure, moving to balanced budgets, tax and regulatory reform, and better and ...

A permanent 20% reduction of public service pay seems warranted. Either that or the doubling of pension plan contributions, writes ...