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1. From the welfare state to the entitlement state

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald Question: If someone made $62,000 last year, had $187,000 in their bank account, and yet sought a $5,360 subsidy from government, what would the common sense response be? Most people would say that person possesses chutzpah ...

2. Chrysler bellies back up to the corporate welfare trough

   Appeared in the Globe and Mail Back in late 2011 after the Occupy Wall Street protests, Fiat-Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne gave a speech in Toronto to decry what he called "the most inane displays of greed." The reference was to behaviour he ...

3. Fracking causes gonorrhea and other economic myths

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald, Nanaimo Daily News, New Glasgow News, and North Bay Nugget One benefit of column writing is the chance for feedback from readers, be they fans, critics or the merely curious. Responses arrive that reflect the rainbow of ...

4. Crunching the numbers on the 2009 auto bailout

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald, Financial Post, Guelph Mercury and Vancouver Sun Back in June 2009, the federal and Ontario governments decided to use massive amounts of taxpayer cash to rescue General Motors and Chrysler, two corporations deemed too big ...

5. The auto bailout was always a bad idea

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald Milton Friedman once said his greatest fear about the 1979 bailout of Chrysler by the U.S. federal government was not that it would fail, but that it would succeed. Friedman didn’t mean he was wrong to oppose it. What ...