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Paul Summerville • septembre 29, 2012

Commentary on silly lines, a silly leader, a silly candidate, a silly stereotype, silly promises, smart Ike, and a silly rant.

cnn.com -- Netanyahu's red line isn't getting him anywhere
Without firing a shot, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has achieved remarkable results in his efforts to counter Iran's nuclear program.

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Paul Summerville • juillet 25, 2012

Commentary on the opportunities from global migration, Spain’s downward spiral, avoiding taxes, Indian partition, and another big baseball contract.

21st century global migration offers great benefits to those countries smart enough to take advantage. (ed’s note: Miami is the city with the world’s highest foreign born population (51%), Toronto is fourth (45%), Vancouver is seventh (39%).

Paul Summerville • juillet 21, 2012

Commentary on the state, from abortion to contraception, the tongue in cheek guide to effective banking, Spanish yields and German tempers, what corporate bonds tell us about the future of equity prices, and Canada’s bull loonie run.

The state, can’t live with it, can’t live without it.

Paul Summerville • juin 22, 2012

Aung San Suu Kyi addresses both Houses of Parliament (UK), commentary on the Nordic model of inequality of outcomes and equality of opportunity, the race against time, the bank that broke Spain, the great 1800 divide, and Canada's one-person democracy.

Our good friend Ken of Tokyo/Hong Kong notes that the reality in Burma is extremely complex. 

Aung San Suu Kyi's address to both Houses of Parliament

 

Paul Summerville • mai 12, 2012

Commentary on India’s Achilles heel, thank goodness for single mothers, growing Euro fall out, risk-off rises, and the dangerous Canadian real estate market.

India’s self-inflicted mediocrity.

Economist -- One dishonourable step backwards
HOW should one judge the lot of women in India, a country that is in many ways progressive, modern, tolerant and yet by turns repressive and hostile?

 

Paul Summerville • avril 18, 2012

Commentary on Sweden’s excellent finance minister, Spanish woes, Japanese engineers working in China, thoughts on China, America`s tax maze, inequality in America, and Canada`s white skinned judges.

Balancing the economy and social justice with good economics. Thanks to David of London.

Paul Summerville • avril 15, 2012

Commentary on the Titanic’s voyage to the bottom of the sea, the Falkland Islands, disrupted Sony, Greenspan’s muse, the Bo scandal, legalisation by degrees, and the Charter’s good.

Amazing graphic of the Titanic’s sinking to the bottom of the ocean.

 

National Post -- Follow the Titanic to the bottom of the ocean
How did the Titanic sink?

Paul Summerville • avril 1, 2012

Commentary on disruptive energy technologies, RIM’s evil quarter, a hot Spanish summer, a fun uncle, German unions downsize, Ignatieff on American exceptionalism, and the political consequences of 67.

5 new energy technologies.

Paul Summerville • mars 23, 2012

Commentary on the Spanish problem, failing Pakistan, nasty Syria, Germany’s smart economy, Cuban capitalism, Obama vs. Romney’s tax plans compared, and the innovation budget.

Peligro.

Financial Times -- Spanish economy: Gathering gloom
Concerns are building about the country’s banks – and about its chances of avoiding a bailout.

Isolated and confused.

Paul Summerville • novembre 14, 2011

Commentary on Italy’s difficult road ahead, the contagion spreads to Spain, the political fallout of economic chaos, books on the Soviet Union’s war with Afghanistan, Russia joins the WTO, the importance of financial literacy, our complicated lives, and Margaret Somerville on appled ethics in post-Charter Canada.

A word of warning, Italy’s terrible economy.

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Ultimately, the most successful societies find the balance between the twin virtues of inequality of outcomes and equality of opportunity.
 
The new politics must marry the twin virtues of unequal outcomes and equality of opportunity.
 
When too few get too much everybody ends up with less.
 
Can it be that striving for equality of opportunity however imperfect the process not only benefits the individual but also creates benefits for the society as a whole that are unintended but wonderful?
 
Economics must be a 'moral enterprise' as much as politics claims to be. Economic outcomes need to be framed in terms of right and wrong not just efficiency if only because these often align in surprising ways.
 
My vision of Canada is that any Canadian child from a family of limited circumstance can expect to have a chance at lifetime of unlimited opportunities.
 
Tax policy should be founded on the principle of generating steady tax revenues sufficient to maximise environmentally sustainable economic growth in order to fund fair government.
 
Public policy should be designed to decrease inequality before the law and increase equality of opportunity.
 
Capitalism is not the problem; the problem is what we do with capitalism.
 
Content is always more difficult to argue than conspiracy.
 
Let the state regulate and the market operate (most things).
 
Welfare strategies are best designed as a hand up not as a hand out.
 
Political debate should not be fact free fighting.
 
Explanation lasts longer than eloquence.
 
Always favour empowerment over dependency.
 
The most enduring public figures are embraced for the causes they fought for and not the concept of themselves they hoped others would remember them by.
 
Find your voice and don't be the echo of somebody else.