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CO2 is CO2 is CO2— the Implications for Emissions Caps
By William Watson | July 19, 2022
The Budget That Changed Canada: Essays on the 25th Anniversary of the 1995 Budget
By William Watson, Jason Clemens | February 27, 2020
Year of the Wealth Tax?
By William Watson | January 3, 2020
Be nice to the price—be very nice to the price
By William Watson | November 29, 2019
So how broke is the Canada Pension Plan?
By William Watson | November 22, 2019
If doctors can’t help their parents, what good are they?
By William Watson | November 8, 2019
Our national unity pipeline
By William Watson | October 25, 2019
What’s the over/under on next year’s top marginal rate?
By William Watson | October 18, 2019
If you’ve got the money, honey, I’ve got the time preference
By William Watson | October 11, 2019
A buck is a buck is a buck, except when it isn’t
By William Watson | October 4, 2019
Canadian tax rates—diversity worthy of Tolstoy
By William Watson | September 28, 2019
Steady as she goes, Professor Phillips (people consume goods and services—not generic output)
By William Watson | September 6, 2019
A free press must be free of government
By William Watson | August 23, 2019
The ordeals of Canadian health care
By William Watson | August 16, 2019
Trump’s trade war—backing us into the 1930s?
By William Watson | August 9, 2019
To save the whales buy off the Ahabs
By William Watson | July 26, 2019
Why Rice plays Texas, the moon shot and a very big public good
By William Watson | July 19, 2019
Family ‘income mobility’ data—a cup at least half full
By William Watson | July 12, 2019
Real wages rising, except for smokers and drinkers
By William Watson | July 4, 2019
You can grow new trees, but not new money
By William Watson | June 28, 2019
Our eighth-best carbon policies
By William Watson | June 21, 2019
Drugs, murder, cellphones and economics
By William Watson | June 14, 2019
Notes gone underground—who has all the missing $1,000s?
By William Watson | June 7, 2019
For higher productivity—don’t drive a cab, run a charity
By William Watson | May 24, 2019
Subtracting value through higher tariffs
By William Watson | May 17, 2019
Admiral Norman and the cost of military contracts
By William Watson | May 10, 2019
Golf is great—but don’t even think about subsidizing it
By William Watson | May 3, 2019
Quick summary of the zillionaires’ externality
By William Watson | April 26, 2019
One good thing about the carbon tax
By William Watson | April 5, 2019
“STiK” is Ottawa’s acronym for “social transfer in kind."
By William Watson | March 29, 2019
If millennials have no money, how can house prices be high?
By William Watson | March 22, 2019
Budget advice—Bill Morneau, channel James Robb
By William Watson | March 15, 2019
How a business prime minister might have handled SNC-Lavalin
By William Watson | March 8, 2019
SNC Lavalin: What would Sir Wilfrid do?
By William Watson | March 4, 2019
The trouble with governments 'defending' jobs
By William Watson | February 22, 2019
Brexit voters aren't just grumpy old men
By William Watson | February 8, 2019
Economists unanimous—index funds are 'Investing 101'
By William Watson | February 1, 2019
Help us because we’re big and successful, help us because we’re small and poor
By William Watson | January 28, 2019
If every change is for the worse, what then?
By William Watson | January 18, 2019
Premier Notley says ‘PIMBY’ to new Alberta refinery
By William Watson | January 12, 2019
Storm clouds on the horizon better than storm clouds overhead
By William Watson | December 21, 2018
Three tricky points for equalization abolitionists
By William Watson | December 15, 2018
What’s good for GM workers isn’t always good for Canada
By William Watson | November 30, 2018
Hope, Crosby and Wilkins on the Road to Micro-Loonie-a
By William Watson | November 23, 2018
To adapt to climate change, end supply management
By William Watson | November 16, 2018
The Bank of Canada gives itself an A- for forecasting
By William Watson | November 9, 2018
Productivity accountants miss widespread magic
By William Watson | November 2, 2018
Will the CAI solve our climate-policy problem and end eco-micro-management?
By William Watson | October 26, 2018
Competitiveness by the numbers is only partly helpful
By William Watson | October 19, 2018
Nordhaus, the Nobel, Harper, economics and populism
By William Watson | October 12, 2018