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lots of exclamation marks there, but you have still not shown healthcare and education spending to be a net drain on our economy -- as porkbarrel projects or industrial subsidies undoubtedly are -- beyond merely labelling them as such. then i assume you will have nothing to say the next time...

nowhere have i denied that we have many inefficiencies vis-a-vis the us. but my whole point is that it's not our spending on healthcare and education that is to blame for this. there's plenty of real govt waste out there, but it doesn't follow that all govt spending is wasteful or unnecessary...

that's nothing. in canada, we've had a whole string of people pretending to be defence minister. ;D

it's been about 20 years since the last "greenfield" investment. that doesn't include factory upgrades, expansions or buyouts, which are much more frequent types anyway. investment is investment is investment. and for the 50th time, i will point out the absurdity of reducing the cost-benefit...

the common ground between these two groups is their support for the capitalist system. but it seems to be for totally different reasons. traditional small-c conservatives want to keep it because it has a proven track record of success. for libertarians, the appeal is its compatibility with their...

Toyota's OWN EXECUTIVES have cited the level of training and lower health care costs as reasons for their decision. I'm sure they have a whole lot of other reasons, as well. Despite this, you claim to know with absolute, utter certainty that Toyota's ONLY REASON for locating in Ontario is due to...

the only thing "generally agreed" by economists is that full employment means a jobless rate of anywhere between 2% and 10%, depending on the time and place. which makes it all the more doubtful that a big auto company would decide to locate a plant based solely on a single precise magical...

everything in that article either sidesteps krugman's points entirely or, as i have pointed out, bizarrely calls him out for telling "lies" that luskin's own numbers agree with, or for ignoring things he has clearly stated. in fact, looking thru some of luskin's other rants, he doesn't seem to...

or at least claims to be...

before i forget, this is pretty hilarious too. last time i checked there were 50 states in the union. that would indeed put alabama in the bottom third. a rich vein of similar gems throughout, but i gotta get back to work...

just finished reading this book. it's a bit of an eye-opener, about an aspect of WWI that seems to be forgotten nowadays. schreiber shows how the final 100 days were a major break from the typical static trench warfare of the era, and how the canadian corps under currie helped bring this about...

how about a link to a retraction from some of the mainstream media that originally carried these comments then? that includes the ottawa citizen and some others. (assuming this is anything more than a source regretting some intemperate remarks, a daily occurrence in the media world.) a search on...

you might want to actually check the date on that article. it's from 16 Nov 1998 -- at the height of a particularly overheated jobs market, when the unemployment rate was, as it says, "at its lowest level in the past 28 years." (and you might also want to try explaining away the...

canada's productivity is behind that of the us in a number of industries that we probably shouldn't be too involved in in the first place. we just don't have the comparative advantage in some of these fields. in others, there is of course real room for improvement. and this gets to my main...

so you mean to say that despite being 23% foreign-owned and listed on the Tokyo and NY stock exchanges, Toyota is completely immune to the disciplinary effect of capital markets? guess that makes the entire finance industry redundant, then. time to update my resume... in other words, you are...

he's still a working, paper-publishing economist who is regularly cited in peer-reviewed journals and texts. at least his employer, princeton u, seems to think so, as do the countless north american economics faculties that use his latest textbooks as standard texts. his speciality is int'l...

here's an actual top intl trade economist's take on the toyota decision:

OK everyone, thinking caps on -- it's quiz time. why did toyota decide this month to locate its RAV4 plant in Ontario, refusing multimillion dollar subsidy offers to locate in southern US states? i am already tingling with anticipation at the brilliant displays of logical contortionism i have...

they sure have: from "oh, iraq was involved in 9/11" to "actually, iraq supported al-qaeda" to "well, iraq had 'contacts' with al qaeda". so far you have shown no evidence that iraq harboured, supported or was allied with al-qaeda or other islamic groups.

it's strange that they would play up a comment kean made last summer (and did not see fit to include in the report) rather than quote a single line of the official report he put his name to. and i can see why: "But to date we have seen no evidence that these or the earlier contacts ever...