Tag Archives: International

Is the Russia-America Global CoDominium About to Begin?

In the wake of the Putin-Trump Helsinki summit, there is much speculation about what was actually said between Putin and Trump behind closed doors and the uncertainty spread throughout the American government about whether agreements had been reached on issues such as Syria and the Ukraine.  The subsequent invitation to Putin to visit the White […]

Gross Saving: A Comparison

I’m teaching public finance this term and just finished a discussion of the economic effects of income taxation on saving using a simple two period model of inter-temporal consumption.  I rounded out the discussion with a comparison of personal savings rates between Canada and the United States and how their savings rates have converged since […]