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Philip Cross: Chrystia Freeland delivers an equal mix of bad economics and bad politics

It is obviously bad economics, so much so that it is hard to treat it as a serious attempt at coherent economic policymaking

16.04.2024 4

National Post

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Philip Cross: Last-gasp defence can't save the carbon tax

Fans of the tax lost credibility early when they bought estimates that B.C.'s carbon tax had cut emissions a lot with very little pain You can save...

10.04.2024 10

Financial Post

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Philip Cross: Bank of Canada's Carolyn Rogers is right. Weak productivity is a national crisis

The one sure way to kill the Canadian experiment is to let living standards lag those in the U.S. so our best and brightest move south You can save...

04.04.2024 9

Financial Post

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Philip Cross: No taxation without representation? Canadian judges aren't buying that

More and more they're telling elected governments how they must spend their money, violating a principle dating back to Magna Carta in 1215 The...

14.03.2024 4

Financial Post

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Philip Cross: Conservatives warned that wokeness was coming. Liberals didn't listen

More traditional left-liberals are trying to untangle themselves from woke identity politics, which voters don't like Conservatives have always...

22.02.2024 7

Financial Post

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Philip Cross: From swaggering to staggering: Canada’s decline into irrelevance

It's remarkable how much our international reputation has faded over the past 10 years, both diplomatically and economically It is remarkable how much...

31.01.2024 10

Financial Post

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Philip Cross: Milton Friedman, keeper of the conservative flame

New book reminds us how Friedman still dominates economics, which means his ideas will survive today's descent into populism Jennifer Burns’ new...

16.01.2024 10

Financial Post

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Philip Cross: Trudeau vs. Harper on oil and gas output. The result will surprise you

Justin Trudeau may have hammered the oilsands but real output from oil and gas extraction has grown faster than under Harper It will surprise most...

01.12.2023 6

Financial Post

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Philip Cross: Higher inflation risks becoming entrenched in Canada

Core inflation is closer to 4% than 2%. If wage deals cook that in, inflation stays high The Canadian economy continues to perform better than...

19.10.2023 10

Financial Post

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Philip Cross: Young people’s unhappiness isn’t older generations' fault

Every generation faces hardships but millennials seem especially unable to cope Statistics Canada last week released a sobering but hardly surprising...

29.09.2023 2

Financial Post

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AI may not be as big a threat to our jobs as you think

Philip Cross is a Munk senior fellow of economics at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and the author of the paper “Artificial Intelligence: How big...

18.09.2023 10

The Globe and Mail

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