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1. 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 ...

2. 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 ...

3. 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 ...

4. 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 ...

5. 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 ...

6. Tax Facts 15

   The average Canadian family pays more in taxes than it spends on food, shelter, and clothing. Have you ever wondered how much tax you pay? How many layers of tax are hidden in the purchases you make every day? Are taxes taking an ever-increasing share of ...

7. How Good Is Canadian Health Care? 2007 Report

   This 2007 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 ...

8. How Good is Canadian Health Care? 2006 Report

   This 2006 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 ...

9. Fraser Forum- March 2004: Families and the State

   In this issue: BC’s Dependency-inducing U-Turn on Welfare Reform by Jason Clemens, Niels Veldhuis, and Sylvia LeRoy The BC government recently de-legitimized one of Canada’s most important social welfare reforms to date. It’s the poor who’ll pay. Private ...

10. Alternative Medicine in Canada: Use and Public Attitudes

    The Fraser Institute conducted a Canadian national survey to determine the prevalence, costs, and patterns of alternative medicine use, such as chiropractic, naturopathic, and herbal therapies. We questioned respondents on their attitudes towards both ...