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FRASER UPDATE
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Latest Research
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Sweden isn’t socialist, despite what socialist advocates outside the country may claim
The Mirage of Swedish Socialism: The Economic History of a Welfare State is a pre-release of an upcoming book by the Fraser Institute—part of a new multimedia project, The Realities of Socialism—written by Johan Norberg. It shows that despite mischaracterizations by advocates of socialism outside the country, Sweden actually has a long history of comparatively small government, open markets, and competition, with only a temporary experiment with socialist policies in the 1970s and 80s.
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HIV-inspired public health measures entirely unsuited to manage COVID-19 pandemic
On COVID, We Fought the Last War. And Lost is the latest installment in the Institute’s series on the COVID-19 pandemic. This essay, by Jay Bhattacharya and Martin Kulldorff, documents how much of the government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic were inspired by practices used to combat the HIV pandemic decades earlier. But because the two viruses are so different, these HIV-inspired policies were entirely unsuited to manage the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Commentary and Blog Posts
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The one big growth industry of the Trudeau years—the bureaucracy [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Financial Post) by Herbert Grubel
From 2015 to 2022, the federal bureaucracy grew by 27 percentage points.

Crucial economic indicator down more than 50 per cent in Alberta [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Edmonton Sun) by Tegan Hill
Business investment provides workers with the tools and new technologies to produce more and better goods and services.

Politicians clueless about implications of ‘net zero’ crusade [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Toronto Sun) by Jock Finlayson
Electricity satisfies only a modest slice—roughly one-fifth—of Canada’s total primary energy demand.

No, you won’t tame inflation with more government spending [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Financial Post) by Philip Cross
We’ve seen a steady erosion of per-capita GDP growth and persistent government deficits.

Contrary to rhetoric, many Canadians don’t support raising taxes on the ‘rich’ [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Vancouver Province) by Grady Munro and Jake Fuss
The top 20 per cent of income-earning households paid 61.4 per cent of the country’s personal income taxes in 2022.

Provinces should allow schools to schedule their own schoolyears [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Western Standard) by Michael Zwaagstra
The summer break began in cities where wealthy families and other suburbanites fled the summertime heat.

Higher interest rates—the effects on Canadians today and tomorrow [[link removed]]
by Livio Di Matteo
Even after inflation is brought to heel, Canadians should not expect interest rates to return to pre-pandemic levels.

Wait times for health care cost Albertans $600 million [[link removed]]
by Ben Eisen and Bacchus Barua
An estimated 181,333 Albertans faced a median wait of 19.2 weeks between specialist consultation and treatment.


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