Blatantly Oblivious to the Blindingly Obvious

Canada’s Housing Crisis: Who’s Running the Show – and for Whom? The most basic, fundamental concept in economics is “supply and demand.” Even someone who has never cracked open a textbook on economics is likely familiar with the term. Our political leaders would be conversant in economic theories and our financial leaders are presumably experts. […]

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Labour shortage: Time to Embrace the Horror

The Black Plague killed nearly 50% of the population of England.  As the population recovered, many impacts of the disaster faded.  However one social structural change, the doubling of real wages for labourers, was permanent.  Why? The shortage of peasant labor to meet landowner demand plus the fallowing of the least productive fields increased productivity

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