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1. For freedom’s sake, rate Hong Kong

   The Heritage Foundation has dropped Hong Kong from its 2021 Index of Economic Freedom. ...

2. Why Are Interest Rates So Low?

   This paper is the latest version of my attempt to convey to others the sense of a model and my understanding about current financial markets that I have been developing and using for my own financial planning and my advice to others since 2009. It is an ...

3. Interest rates are low because of demographics; an aging population of savers creates a borrower's market

   Appeared in the Financial Post The Bank of Canada apparently surprised the chattering classes and everybody else this week by dropping its benchmark interest rate. The element of surprise, of course, reflected the firmly held convictions by Bank ...

4. Towards A Worldwide Index of Human Freedom

   The quest People have been seeking freedom for millennia but not freedom for all. Slaves, serfs, women, outsiders, and the defeated were not included. That changed in the last few centuries as the circle of those deserving freedom expanded. Evolution ...

5. Milton Friedman (1912- 2012): Implications for Canada and Europe

   Appeared in the National Post Milton Friedman was the most influential economist of the 20th century and his work will continue to have effect as long as humans engage in economic activity. It is, therefore, appropriate that as we celebrate the 100th ...

6. Greece is broke, and so is democracy

   Appeared in the Globe and Mail It is often the role of the economist to point at the impending doom with which reality confronts our fondest wishes. For that reason Thomas Carlisle referred to economics as the dismal science. It is made the more dismal ...

7. Fraser Forum- November/December 2010: Economic Freedom

   In this issue: Celebrating economic freedom by Fred McMahon The Fraser Institute works continuously to promote and develop economic freedom throughout the world. Economic freedom is essential for US economic recovery by Nathan J. Ashby American states ...

8. A Comparative Analysis of Mortality Rates Associated with Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) Surgery in Ontario and Select US States

   The purpose of this study is threefold: first, to ascertain whether there are differences between mortality rates associated with coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery in Ontario hospitals that perform such surgeries; second, to test whether the ...

9. Jobs: situation normal; Unemployment is rising, but hysterical reporting aside, it's still lower than the historical average

   Appeared in the National Post Last evening at an early Christmas party, I was assailed by a friend with a slew of statistics pointing out just how bad the current situation is. His most impassioned focus was on the rising unemployment rate and its ominous ...

10. How Good Is Canadian Health Care? 2008 Report

    This 2008 edition of How Good Is Canadian Health Care? provides answers to a series of questions that are important to resolve if Canada is to make the correct choices as it amends its health care policies. In this study, we primarily compare Canada to ...