Writing

Convenient dollars, inconvenient Treasuries?

Published in the Financial Times, Mar 9, 2026.

Trump is undermining the Canadians most sympathetic to him

Published in Foreign Policy, Mar 12, 2025.

What’s in it for Canada in the new global defence bank? It may not be what you think

Published in The Globe and Mail, Mar 26, 2026.

Iran oil shock means central bankers need to be foreign policy experts too

Published in The Globe and Mail, Mar 11, 2026.

Sanae Takaichi’s win in Japan is exactly what global markets are looking for

Published in The Globe and Mail, Feb 13, 2026.

Provinces have too much power, and Canada’s economy suffers as a result

Published in The Globe and Mail, Jan 29, 2026.

What is Canada’s place in this fragmented new world?

Published in The Globe and Mail, Jan 12, 2026.

True economic sovereignty means using the free market for what it does

Published in The Globe and Mail, Dec 04, 2025.

Canada doesn’t like immigration any more. This is a problem

Published in The Globe and Mail, Oct 11, 2025.

Before Europe can save Canada, it must first save itself

Published in The Globe and Mail, Oct 01, 2025.

Mark Carney is running the economy like a conservative. And that’s okay

Published in The Globe and Mail, Sep 11, 2025.

Canada must be ready to get its elbows up again to stand a chance in the post-Trump era

Published in The Globe and Mail, Aug 28, 2025.

How the new policy elite have caricatured the dismal science

Published in The Globe and Mail, Aug 15, 2025.

A scary chart shows why diminished Fed independence may outlast this administration

Published in The Globe and Mail, Aug 01, 2025.

Work American hours, earn European wages: Why Canada has the worst of both worlds

Published in The Globe and Mail, Jul 17, 2025.

As war rages, the world economy confronts a ghost of ages past

Published in The Globe and Mail, Jun 18, 2025.

Spiralling U.S. debt is a burden on future generations around the world

Published in The Globe and Mail, Jun 05, 2025.

Do you really think Donald Trump will honour any ‘deal’ he makes?

Published in The Globe and Mail, May 22, 2025.

Carney achieved nothing of substance in Washington. But that’s okay

Published in The Globe and Mail, May 07, 2025.

The new federal government will spend big, raise deficits – and that will be fine

Published in The Globe and Mail, Apr 28, 2025.

Did anyone even ask for Trump’s bonkers economic policies?

Published in The Globe and Mail, Apr 09, 2025.

What to do in this trade war when inflation and recession strike at once?

Published in The Globe and Mail, Mar 28, 2025.

Has the stock market learned its lesson yet on underestimating Donald Trump?

Published in The Globe and Mail, Mar 12, 2025.

A bullying U.S. A fractured world. A chance for Canadian trade to show its quality

Published in The Globe and Mail, Feb 26, 2025.

If we’re willing to cut U.S. goods, why aren’t we willing to cut carbon emissions?

Published in The Globe and Mail, Feb 13, 2025.

Against Trump’s tariffs, Premier Smith is not as smart as she thinks

Published in The Globe and Mail, Jan 29, 2025.

The talented Mr. Carney is the right man for the wrong time

Published in The Globe and Mail, Jan 16, 2025.

Clashing with consecutive finance ministers shows Trudeau’s disregard for policy

Published in The Globe and Mail, Dec 16, 2024.

Next, Trump will cripple the Federal Reserve and bring inflation and asset bubbles

Published in The Globe and Mail, Dec 05, 2024.

Alas, a decline in pro-business politics in North America

Published in The Globe and Mail, Nov 28, 2024.

U.S. business leaders who supported Trump have betrayed America and themselves

Published in The Globe and Mail, Nov 06, 2024.

Let’s not be naïve, there are no easy solutions for Canada’s productivity problem

Published in The Globe and Mail, Oct 30, 2024.

The West is in EV denial. We need to overhaul our complacent strategy

Published in The Globe and Mail, Sep 25, 2024.

Canadian banks’ ‘ruthless oligopoly’ is not the problem you think it is

Published in The Globe and Mail, Sep 11, 2024.

Why analysts are so often wrong in their economic estimates, and why that’s OK

Published in The Globe and Mail, Aug 28, 2024.

Canada has a problem with how we tax companies. Here is how to fix it

Published in The Globe and Mail, Aug 19, 2024.

To increase trade and investment, fix Canada’s troubled foreign service

Published in The Globe and Mail, Jul 17, 2024.

Loonie might weaken if Canadian interest rates diverge from U.S. – but so what?

Published in The Globe and Mail, Jun 19, 2024.

It’s time for a June interest-rate cut. Here’s one more reason

Published in The Globe and Mail, May 22, 2024.

Canada’s oddly specific EV credits for Honda amounts to poor industrial policy

Published in The Globe and Mail, Apr 24, 2024.

The future economy will suffer if Canada axes the carbon tax

Published in The Globe and Mail, Mar 27, 2024.

The anti-natural-gas camp is targeting the wrong problem

Published in The Globe and Mail, Feb 28, 2024.

Big Milk’s supply management sank yet another trade deal – it holds too much influence

Published in The Globe and Mail, Feb 01, 2024.

Why can’t Canada just let in more immigrants who can build houses?

Published in The Globe and Mail, Dec 05, 2023.

Canada-India trade is a small price to pay for our sovereignty

Published in The Globe and Mail, Oct 18, 2023.

Suncor’s climate pullback is the latest sign federal incentives are not enough

Published in The Globe and Mail, Aug 24, 2023.

The real reason Canadian pension funds are pivoting away from China

Published in The Globe and Mail, Jul 23, 2023.

Don’t blame inflation on government or central bank – or expect them to fix it

Published in The Globe and Mail, Jun 30, 2023.