I’ve been writing for some time about how the constraints that the Federal Reserve (Fed) is operating under make it such that it’s likely they will overreact to inflation, thus causing a recession. Despite the gravity of the ‘R’ word, the recession that is likely to materialize should be mild given we’re coming off a…
Month: January 2023
The Economics of Care in Mental Health
With roughly one third of Canadians being affected by a mental illness in their lifetime[1], it can be argued that the historically underfunded sector of mental health care doesn’t make sense. It doesn’t make sense in the obvious humane sense, but it also doesn’t make sense economically.This is true, not just in Canada, but globally….
The Uncertainty Portfolio
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless yet be determined to make them otherwise.”- F. Scott Fitzgerald Readers of Viewpoint’s publications over the…