Commentary on why you better beware financial market planners, measuring inequality, the cost of bank lending discrimination, the dangers in being ‘fair’, wrong headed economics, and men without work.

Beware. 

Please understand the risks that will impact your lifestyle.

In A Fair Country John Saul argues that communities manage the natural individual-group tension either by favouring a "predominance of individual rights [or] the idea of fairness."

Observers of the US and Canada have long noted that the former favours individual rights, the latter fairness, although both sometimes experiment with the other.

The mid-terms will confirm attempts to be fair, some old and some new, have made many men, many white, and possibly their wives angry, as the belief in individual rights is reclaimed.

Canada's excellent future will run into a number of obstacles mostly cultural. Ancient (by Canadian standards) quarrels and generations of habit produce a rythum of political expectation and expression that can work against change no matter how obvious how beneficial how needed. Every country has these cultural barriers and there are many on view today. Two important articles on debt, and one on why China ain't no bubble.