Balanced budget legislation will be disastrous for Canada
Finance Minister Joe Oliver's latest musings about introducing balanced budget legislation represent the worst policy for Canada, and will doom us to European-style crises and rob future generations of...
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Balanced budget legislation represents the worst policy for Canada
Joe Oliver's latest musings about introducing balanced budget legislation represent the worst policy for Canada, and will doom us to European-style crises and rob future generations of...
View ArticleBalanced budget legislation: Another zombie policy returns from the dead
Ah, here we go again -- when seeking to assert credibility as sound fiscal managers, governments reach for the tired gimmick of "balanced budget legislation" (BBL). It's not about good economics. Nor...
View ArticleSacrificing Manitoba on the rickety altar of balanced budgets
It is unfortunate that the sitting government has to waste valuable political capital manoeuvring around obstructionist balanced budget legislation (BBL), but the media and opposition continue to place...
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Harper is fighting the deficit battle but losing the economic war
Tuesday, July 14, 2015Chip in to keep stories like these coming. The evidence is mounting that Canada's economy may already be in an outright recession. Yet Conservatives return repeatedly to their...
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Balanced budget myopia breaks both ways
Like this article? Chip in to keep stories like these coming.Opinions on deficit budgeting have become a shorthand litmus test in Canadian politics. Deficits are left wing and balanced budgets are...
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The evolution of anxiety about debt and deficits
Friday, September 4, 2015Like this article? Chip in to keep stories like these coming.2400 B.C.: The king of Lagash, part of ancient Sumerian civilization in what is now Iraq, declares a general...
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What will the next government do to fight recession?
Tuesday, September 8, 2015Like this article? rabble is reader-supported journalism. Chip in to keep stories like these coming.The Canadian economy slowed to a crawl and then stopped. Economists call...
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Digging deeper into the federal 'surplus'
Tuesday, September 15, 2015Chip in to keep stories like these coming. This week Stephen Harper's Conservatives are trumpeting the announcement of a small surplus for fiscal year 2014-15. Here's why it...
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Is the federal surplus really a 'triumph of good fiscal management'
Harper's Conservatives are reporting a federal "surplus" for 2014-15. Let's dig a little deeper on that shall we?Digging deeper into the federal 'surplus'
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Missing in (debate) action: Macroeconomic lessons from the Great Depression
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Balancing our climate books: Why ecological debt matters
Wednesday, November 4, 2015Chip in to keep stories like these coming.The drumbeat of rhetoric about debt is unceasing. Even while running up the federal debt, Conservatives emphasized the negative...
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The critics are wrong: Manitoba's economy is strong
Like this article? rabble is reader-supported journalism. Chip in to keep stories like these coming.Although the 137-page fiscal update is much shorter on detail than a full budget would be, there are...
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Deficit hysteria breaks out in wake of Liberal budget
Tuesday, March 29, 2016Like this article? rabble is reader-supported journalism. Chip in to keep stories like these coming. After the Trudeau government's budget announced a nearly $30-billion deficit,...
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A rational voice in a time of austerity, Douglas Peters could have set Canada...
Friday, October 14, 2016After sweeping to power in 1993 with promises of expanded social programs, the federal Liberals did a dramatic turnaround in office, deeply slashing social spending in the name...
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