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Innovation and Economic Progress
Economic progress is measured as GDP per capita, with GDP measured by Purchasing Power Parity to reflect national purchasing power… READ MORE
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A Post Script
During the preparation of the prior post a couple of noteworthy items came to light. This post will document them.… READ MORE
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The Relative Performance of Canada’s Economy
This post focuses on the relative performance of the Canadian economy over the course of the last generation, roughly since… READ MORE
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Canada’s Forever {Trade} War … another season
On August 19 2024 the US Department of Commerce released its final decision of its fifth administrative review of its… READ MORE
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Major Junior Hockey
This is a self-indulgent post. Having spent the better part of the last decade and a half in a small,… READ MORE
wisdom for this month
James Graham on the lingering and as yet unresolved effect of the 2008 global Financial Crisis (Reuters digital July 17, 2025)
…We’d been promised that this was the end of history and that everything was inevitably going to be a linear advancement towards progress and improvement. … I had no idea the longer, bigger crises and anger that was going to be coming down the line.
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