Milton Friedman Intentional obfuscation is offensive. It’s not about the reader, it’s about the author, setting out to prove his or her intellectual prowess, to stake out a line in the sand that separates ...
What do Adam Smith, John Maynard Keynes, and Roger Penrose have in common? Well there must have been something, it wasn’t the content of their books. Penrose is the dreamy physicist, theorist, and mathematician. ...
Natural sciences in usual circumstances are wonderfully predictable; what goes up must come down. Economists since Leon Walras have promoted the profitable illusion that economics is a natural science. Today, more than ...
Rarely have free trade debaters–on all sides–had better opportunities to wag tongues. The long-standing era of free trade deals that in Canada started with the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement in 1987 (CUSFTA), superseded ...
What is the Best Age To Invest? According to value investors, like Warren Buffet, the secret sauce of finance can be explained in five simple words: Investing is all about timing. The five simple words that contain the ...
What is an ETF? Electronically traded funds are close-end funds that trade on a stock exchange. They are managed through a creation and redemption scheme that ties their contents to those of an index, or selection of ...
