Canadians Indebted Like Never Before There are three things Canadians love: hockey, the Liberal Party and debt. According to new numbers from Statistics Canada, the ratio of household debt compared to disposable income reached another record high in the fourth quarter of 2015. The report shows that the ratio increased to 165.4 percent, up from […]
Archives for March 2016
Socialist Brotherhood: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is a big fan of ‘revolutionary’ Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders’s message of big government, free stuff for all and socializing everything isn’t just resonating with millennials, it’s also being celebrated by socialists around the world. Speaking at a Caracas commemoration of “Anti-Imperialism Day” this week, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro praised the 2016 United States presidential candidate by calling the Vermont Senator “an emerging […]
Daylight Saving Time: Is there nothing the government won’t regulate?
By: James Alexander Webb On March 13 Americans will, in their tolerant nature, acquiesce once again to a government initiated (and hardly popular) loss of one hour, and the setting of clocks out of sync with our planet’s celestial rhythm. After an earlier (unpopular) 1918 trial of Daylight Saving Time and its later repeal in […]
WSJ survey finds economists think Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump would be worst for U.S. economy
Establishment economists polled by the Wall Street Journal say that 2016 presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump would be the worst leaders for the United States economy. The rest of the field ostensibly would be just “meh,” according to these economists. The newspaper released the findings this week that found the one presidential candidate […]
5 random things for a Friday (Americans hate congress, Rothbard on NAFTA, Milton Friedman debates a protectionist)
News Story of the Day: Americans still dislike Congress. According to a new Gallup poll, the approval rating at Congress is just 13 percent. This is substantially down from 84 percent in 2002, but it’s up from nine percent a couple of years ago. It’s also perplexing to see that the GOP and Democratic representatives […]