Economist, would-be writer and other things
Vancouver, Canada
Joined April 2013
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BC Ferries is back in the news, firing its CEO in part for contracing with a Chinese shipyard. Reupping a blog from over one year ago. benefitcost.blogspot.com/202…
In the trade war Buy Canadian is good, Anything buy USA is better. A blog:
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Re-upping a blog I wrote last winter. The bigger issue for Canadians is not Trump's war on us but rather the war he is foisting on his own country. benefitcost.blogspot.com/202…
ICYMI. A blog on the recent BC Ferries' vessel purchase controversy.
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A blog I wrote 7 years ago on the strategic value of what was then the proposed Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion project. Let's make sure no matter how and when Trump caves, we don't again forget the need to diversify.
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It isn't just the war on Canada we need to concerns ourselves with. The greater calamity is arguably the war on the values and institutions that the US helped develop and lead. benefitcost.blogspot.com/202…
Trump's threat to impose a 25% across the board tariff is an opportunity as well as immediate concern - the opportunity to get serious about being less dependent on an increasingly unreliable trading partner. My blog:
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Trump wants a northern resource colony. Can needs policy to resist— to divert hydro surplus to other provinces and to enable more fossil fuel exports to offshore mkts. And export taxes on energy bound for US could be used to help offset tariffs on manufactured goods
Trump Is Likely to Exempt Canadian Energy From Tariffs, Wilbur Ross Says
#oott
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For Canada the election of Trump will no doubt cause great pain. But it offers opportunity too -- the push we need to greatly reduce our reliance on the US in trade and defence. Trump America is not a reliable partner and there is much we can and should do.
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🚨| URGENTE: El tirano de Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro no quiere que el mundo vea esta masiva protesta en su contra que está sucediendo ahora mismo en Caracas, encabezada por María Corina Machado. Dale ME GUSTA y RT para que el mundo se entere y esto le duela más a Maduro. 🇻🇪
All of my Jewish friends abhor Netanyahu and his extremist colleagues. But we have never felt as isolated by antisemitism as we do now. I suspect Selina Robinson feels the same. To understand take the time to read Foer's Atlantic article: theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…
Revenues from the carbon tax should be funding adaptation measures. An opinion piece in the Globe. theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
An excellent article challenging facile calls for ceasefire without credible plans to address truly genocidal threats.
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I have been struggling to articulate the complex emotions I've been feeling since Saturday morning as a Jew, a liberal/progressive, a believer that Palestinians and Jews have a right to a homeland, to safety and dignity. A thread 1/
A sunday morning blog arguing (yet again) that carbon taxes should be dedicated to the mitigation and compensation of the increasingly severe damages carbon emissions cause. benefitcost.blogspot.com/202…
BC Ferries is not alone. Aging fleet, govt-imposed subsidies, complex governance, politically-distorted procurement. It is a big issue for ferry-dependent communities. It can bring govts down. economist.com/britain/2023/0…
A blog arguing for a new approach and commitment to addressing the housing crisis in Vancouver and other BC urban centres. benefitcost.blogspot.com/202…
Articles like this remind me of Joan Robinson's sharp insight -- the invisible hand of unfettered markets works by strangling the poor. Only a very comfortable person can be ok with the creative destruction from 'letting the economy burn' theglobeandmail.com/business…
