3-minute read
Un déficit de trop pour Nicolas Marceau?
Zero deficit.
4-minute read
Tax and the City: Universities as startup incubators deserve a second look
How to keep bright young minds in cities.
3-minute read
La baguette magique des taxes
Sound public finances.
4-minute read
Le Québec en déroute
The economic situation in Québec.
6-minute read
La taxe Chirac ou la dérive de financements opaques
The new financing mechanisms in the field of development assistance.
1-minute read
Why New International Taxes for Development Are Inefficient
International aid only has a limited impact on the fight against poverty, as opposed to trade and entrepreneurial capitalism. Meanwhile, international bureaucrats are still busy crafting new taxes for development assistance. In 2000, the United Nations Development Programme started talking about Innovative Financing for Development (IFD), a complex set of spending projects and organizations in the field of development assistance that are to be funded mostly by new taxes.
6-minute read
Le plafond de la dette du gouvernement fédéral américain
The federal debt situation in the United States.
4-minute read
Laissez-les respirer!
Quebec's "Priorité emploi" Economic policy.
5-minute read
Cinq histoires pour Mme Marois
The state of the economy in Quebec.
1-minute read
Viewpoint on US Government Finances
Since the adoption of a law to that effect in 1917, the debt of the American federal government is subject to a “ceiling.” Barring an agreement from Congress, the current ceiling should be reached during the month of October. This is a structural problem, not a cyclical one. Even if we managed to balance revenue and spending and eliminate budget deficits, it would not spell the end of the basic imbalance in American government finances, which is due to the ever-growing financial obligations stemming from social programs.