Monthly Archives: July 2007
Manufacturing obsession
Here are some data* on how the Canadian labour market has evolved since the CAD started appreciating against the USD five years ago: Very belated update: As a faithful reader of Andrew Gelman’s blog, I’ve been wondering if there was a better way of conveying this information. I think a bar chart would have been […]
Why doesn’t the US have a consumption tax?
The obvious answer would be ‘because it’s unpopular with voters’, but that really isn’t convincing: no-one likes to pay consumption taxes (the adjective most associated with Canada’s GST is ‘hated’). Come to think of it, no-one likes paying personal income taxes, either. But among OECD countries, it is only in the US where the architects […]
The social spending and GDP per capita graph redux
For reasons unknown to me or to Mark Thoma, The Economist blogger doesn’t seem to be willing to engage me directly in the interpretation of the following graph from this post: My original comment on this graph was: ‘These are countries whose per-capita incomes are greater than the OECD average. The point here is that […]
Worthwhile Canadian Initiative 
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