Showing posts with label free markets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label free markets. Show all posts
Sunday, April 12, 2015

Carbon Taxapalooza

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L ast Monday Terence Corcoran declared Carbon Taxapalooza Week: We hereby declare this to be Carbon Taxapalooza Week . The objective is t...
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Monday, December 15, 2014

"The cause of the Canada-U.S. price gap is obvious — the government"

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M ark Milke : ... the federal government recently introduced legislation — dubbed the Price Transparency Act — that will force retailers...
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Saturday, June 7, 2014

Mark Carney - overrated hypocrite

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W illiam Watson : IMF head Christine Lagarde and Bank of England Governor Mark Carney both spoke last week in London on the subject of ...
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Monday, March 17, 2014

Nortel's "culture of arrogance" led to its demise

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G lobe and Mail : The collapse of telecommunications giant Nortel Networks Corp. was caused by “a culture of arrogance and even hubris” .....
Friday, January 3, 2014

Pope Francis - economic naif / dunce

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P eter Foster on the Pope’s economic naivete and ignorance :  ... the serious issue of whether the Pope knows what he’s talking about whe...
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Friday, June 7, 2013

Price fixing hypocrisy - criminal charges laid against chocolate companies

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T he charges, laid Thursday , come ... after Canada’s Competition Bureau ...  found evidence suggesting that a price-fixing cartel collabo...
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Wednesday, May 8, 2013

"The Invisible Hand vs. The Hand of God"

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P eter Foster : The problem is excess of moralism, which bolsters divine regulatory aspirations of those who would paint themselves onto t...
Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Joe Fesh and Bangladesh - Jon Kay gets it right

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D ear CBC ... please lay off Joe Fresh This was the worst accident in the history of the garment industry ... Almost every CBC show I’ve ...
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Friday, February 15, 2013

The Unilever CEO's “Global Salvationism”

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P eter Foster : Paul Polman , chief executive of British consumer goods giant Unilever .... confirmed that he ranks as perhaps the world’s...
Friday, December 7, 2012

Nexen and Progress sales approved.

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H arper government approves foreign takeover bids : ... the Harper government declared Friday in approving CNOOC’s $15.1-billion takeover ...
Wednesday, November 7, 2012

No sign of Adam Smith during Sandy

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P eter Foster : ... Both the Democratic governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo , and the Republican governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie , l...
Thursday, August 9, 2012

Jonathan Kay - "Olympophobe"

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P eter Foster -  The joy of competition : ... it’s time for my quadrennial smackdown with the Post’s foremost Olympophobe, Comment editor ...
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Thursday, July 12, 2012

Insurmountable problems with the progressive view of business and markets

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M ark Steyn picks up on an AP "news" "report" that says of Republicans : They and their ideological leaders argue tha...
Friday, March 2, 2012

Peter Foster on the CIBC's Jim Prentice

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" T he Sorcerer's Prentice " : ... A speech Mr. Prentice gave to the Toronto Board of Trade on Thursday was a jaw-dropper ...
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Saturday, February 25, 2012

Killing the Wheat Board - a step closer

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T his is taking forever:  " Canadian Wheat Board dealt blow by Manitoba judge "
Saturday, February 4, 2012

facebook's Mark Zuckerberg is "a self-serving hypocrite"

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P eter Foster: " Two-faced book " ... [Adam] Smith noted that businessmen — like all human beings — are often self-serving hypoc...
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Thursday, October 27, 2011

Kill the Canadian dairy cartel

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T he wheat monopoly is as good as gone. Now the dairy cartel needs to be put down. William Watson responds  to a  column by Wally Smith, h...
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Friday, August 19, 2011

"I Pencil": the video

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A video supplement to Leonard E. Read's famous essay : [ Via ]
Sunday, July 31, 2011

Individualism vs collectivism

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X anthippa has posted a five part series of videos that neatly explain key concepts (and misconceptions) relating the various political phi...
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Friday, July 29, 2011

Klavan: The facts of life for liberals

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