Lose-Lose Game

I don’t know what I like worse, outright naivete or pragmatism. The folks pushing for ‘self-sufficiency’ have almost no real grounding in reality. SS has become a generic term. However, the New Brunswick Union of Public and Private Employees’ resignation…

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Ireland and incentives

NBT makes good contributions to this blog. Sensible stuff. He/she is correct that Ireland reduced ‘statism’ and that contributed to the economic resurgence but let’s not make sweeping statements. This chart is taken directly from the 2006 Irish Development Agency…

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People power

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.-Matthew 6:21 Anybody know how many new economic developers have been hired by the province in the past couple of years? I haven’t looked at it in several years and…

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