Tag: economic policy

The response of governments was heavy-handed, lead-footed, and wrong-headed, writes Philip Cross. By Philip Cross, December 8, 2020 2020 forever ...

If business people pay dividends in the middle of a pandemic, it’s probably because they think it’s important for the ...

OTTAWA, ON (December 8, 2020): The Macdonald-Laurier Institute’s Leading Economic Indicator posted slowing growth in October. While Canada’s economy is ...

The unrelenting decades-long focus on short-term stimulus for the economy has been at the expense of ignoring the long-term damage ...

Office of the Prime Minister of Canada / Flickr Canadians won't like what comes next — the higher taxes that ...

Canada’s oil and gas industry had been put on a different course through Indigenous engagement, writes Ken Coates. By Ken ...

OTTAWA, ON (December 2, 2020): In a new study for the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, Munk Senior Fellow Philip Cross finds that ...

Once we have immunity to the virus, there is going to be so much pent-up demand for these currently devastated ...

Social and economic policy interventions best left to fiscal and regulatory policies, most of which come under parliamentary scrutiny, writes ...

China’s population is aging. The constant flow of new workers from the farms is drying up and wages are rising, ...

Economics simply trotted out the same easy-money and deficit-financed policies it has relentlessly pursued since the financial crisis, writes Philip ...

Putting a tax on workers outside of the office will inevitably mean fewer will be able to do so, at ...