Nice sliding catch by Cydnee Schneider caps a 1-2-3 inning for Katherine Thiessen SLU 3, NW Florida State 0 | Mid 5 (10-inning exhibition) #LionUp

It’s a telling sign of the state of political economy in Canada that every political party agrees that the problem with the Trudeau government’s massive subsidies to Stellantis is that they didn’t impose enough conditions rather than they were a bad idea in the first place.

I wonder sometimes if lots of Canadian policy makers just hope that in a few years the next American president will do a Trudeauesque "America is back" thing and just drop tariffs. But I think it's risky to bank on this. Tariff revenue in the US is up $118 billion this year, to

Sounds like someone needs to read Bev Dahlby’s paper on when it makes sense to reduce our debt. journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/sppp… #cdnpoli #abpoli #econ

Katherine Thiessen singles home a run to put the Lady Lions up by six SLU 9, LSUA 3 | End 9 (10-inning exhibition) #LionUp

Atta be MOOSE katherine thiessen 🔥

The Harper administration successfully maintained the same fiscal anchor that the Trudeau administration pursued. For every single “deficit” you list, net debt remained flat as a percentage of GDP. The current administration promises a far worse trajectory than the previous two.

Allocative choices are relevant to debt sustainability only in terms of their comparative impacts on the rate of economic growth. Otherwise, they are in fact “exactly like expenses”. Just like “operating” expenses, they increase net-debt if we borrow for them. #cdnpoli

The “investments” that the Carney administration intends to make by the admission of his own platform result in less sustainable finances outside of recession. If you borrow $1 for an “investment” in an attempt to increase GDP, but GDP rises by less than $1, the debt ratio rises.

“It’s ok that the red coloured party lost billions on a failed subsidy that didn’t include equity because when the blue coloured party was in power a decade ago they spent millions on a subsidy that they mostly recuperated by selling an equity stake”. Pretty solid logic. 🤦‍♂️

Unless unemployment rises significantly above where it sits now, all this spending will achieve is a higher level of debt, shuffling workers from one job to another on the taxpayer’s dime. What a fine way to oppose Trump: shooting ourselves in the foot. That’ll show him.

I don’t believe you honestly care about that job loss if your immediate response to any criticism of 3x as many job losses and billions of dollars more in fiscal losses is to defend these losses today by pointing out lesser failures from previous administrations.

And yet somehow you believe that the best way to “protect” ourselves is to unsustainably accumulate debt and simultaneously weaken our economy? We’re really going to show up Trump by slowing our domestic growth and saddling future generations with historic levels of debt!

Perhaps the Chrétien Consensus, as Sean Speer argues, ended in 2015…ideologically…but it ended far earlier in terms of outcomes. It is particularly disingenuous to suggest that Carney’s plan to spike the debt ratio is a “continuance” of recent federal fiscal trends. #cdnpoli

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Katherine Thiessen strikes out a pair in a 1-2-3 inning SLU 5, Co-Lin 2 | Mid 8 (10-inning exhibition) #LionUp

Katherine Thiessen pitches out of a two-on, no-out jam SLU 7, Co-Lin 2 | Mid 9 (10-inning exhibition) #LionUp