Issue Archive » Assessing the Recession & Navigating the Recovery
The War Against Creative Destruction: Why Government Bailouts Only Make Things Worse
by Paul Beaudry on September 24, 2009
Conventional wisdom quickly cemented around the notion that to deal with the economic windstorm, governments had to come to the rescue with funding to save failing businesses. In the long-term this does more harm to the business world than anything because businesses fail to curb risky behaviour and are enabled to continue poor decisions, knowing the state will be there to rescue them.
Read more » | 0 commentsIntroduction: Keeping a Little Perspective: Avoiding Mistakes of the Past on the Road to Recovery
by Gwyn Morgan on September 24, 2009
c2c Advisory Council member and retired CEO Gwyn Morgan provides an overview of the current issue of c2c and his own thoughts on the recent economic turmoil.
Read more » | 1 commentsCitizens, the State, and the Crisis: How Canadians can Emerge as Masters, Not Servants, of Government
by Bill Robson on September 24, 2009
A plethora of different theories have been put forward in recent months as to the root causes of the recent financial crisis. In this insightful and thought-provoking piece, economist William Robson offers up three main factors to explain the implosion, analyzes why Canada has weathered the storm fairly well and explains what limited government advocates must do to ensure we come out of the recession stronger, more wealthy and freer than before.
Read more » | 0 commentsFearful Symmetry: The Fall and Rise of Canada’s Founding Values
by Brian Lee Crowley on September 24, 2009
An excerpt from Chapter 1 of Brian Lee Crowley’s provocative and scintillating new book, Fearful Symmetry: The Fall and Rise of Canada’s Founding Values.
Read more » | 0 commentsWhat Would the Florentines Do? What Modern Conservatives and Libertarians Can Learn from Renaissance Italy
by Mark Milke on September 24, 2009
Mark Milke invokes parallels to Renaissance Italy to deconstruct two recent books about the Conservative government – one by Stephen Harper critic Gerry Nicholls and the other by former Tory campaign manager Tom Flanagan.
Read more » | 0 commentsInterview with Don Drummond: Vice President and Chief Economist of TD Bank Financial Group
by Unknown Author on September 24, 2009
An Interview with Don Drummond Vice-President and Chief Economist of TD Bank Financial Group
Read more » | 0 commentsStop the 'Stimulus' Spending: The Case for Restraint
by Niels Veldhuis and Charles Lammam on September 24, 2009
Niels Veldhuis and Charles Lammam dissect the hard numbers to debunk conventional wisdom that governments should spend more during an economic slowdown – the facts show the reverse is true.
Read more » | 0 commentsBook Review: The Housing Boom and Bust, by Thomas Sowell, Basic Books, 148 pp, $31.95 -
by Grant Morgan on September 24, 2009
Review of The Housing Boom and Bust by Thomas Sowell.
Read more » | 0 commentsThis Month's Featured Article
Crime and Punishment
If the chattering classes want to know why the public thinks crime is still an issue, maybe they should look at how "ex"-criminals get to create new victims all over again....
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