Taxing high earners is harder than it looks: Quebec edition
Memo to the PQ: there aren’t that many Quebecers in the top-income brackets
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Economic analysis
The ’net benefit’ criterion for foreign investment is meaningless
Making it mean something will make things worse
Labour’s share of income: why are trends in the U.S. and Canada so different?
Stephen Gordon ponders the great, unsolved puzzle
Food price hikes: Why I blame investors
Former hedge fund analyst Andrew Hepburn catches speculators with their fingers in the cookie jar
About that record current account (not trade) deficit
What would the NDP have done differently, may I ask?
Why the U.S. can’t ’just do it’ and implement austerity
Brian Lee Crowley and Robert Murphy have some advice for US policy-makers on how to deal with its government budget deficit: do...
Econowatch: September 2012
A monthly scorecard on the state of the economy in North America and beyond
Econ 101: What you need to know about carbon taxes and cap-and-trade
Ottawa’s climate change kabuki theater
Why the Canadian labour market is already back to normal
The bathtub theory of unemployment
What Canada’s current account deficit says about our vulnerability to a global slowdown
A commodities bust could be a double whammy for exports