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Published in the Financial Post on February 19, 2014 By Finn Poschmann Since the 2008 financial crisis, international and domestic financial regulation, such as Dodd-Frank legislation in the U.S., has emerged as an horrifically complex and prescriptive beast. What is striking about the new rules, here and elsewhere, is that they make little use of market incentives. Which is unfortunate,…

Published in the Financial Post on August 9, 2013 By Finn Poschmann Business headlines flowed fast this week: Regulatory limits on government-backed mortgage security issuance kicked in and ruffled markets in Canada, and President Obama endorsed a Senate bill that would overturn housing finance mechanisms in the United States. The U.S. first. The current in the U.S. represents fundamental…

Published in the Financial Post on November 2, 2010 By Philippe Bergevin and David Laidler The financial crisis did not begin in Canada and our monetary policy regime coped with it well. But recent events have reminded us that stable inflation does not guarantee financial stability, and have made it imperative that the 2011 monetary policy agreement between the Bank of Canada and the…

Published in the Financial Post on June 29, 2011 By Finn Poschmann The federal Parliament in 2009 handed Canada’s competition commissioner, Melanie Aitken, awesome legal power, and she is using it. She is free to do so — pending potential court reversals, or pending legislative change — but the current law raises serious concerns among economists and legal scholars. It also threatens big costs…

Introduction  This Verbatim is based on a presentation to the federal government on November 17, 2023. Don Drummond is Stauffer-Dunning Fellow at Queen’s University as well as Fellow-in-Residence and Senior Fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute. Canada long ago missed the chance to properly prepare for the inexorable ageing of its population and its broader implications for healthcare, society…

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