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NB Budget: Full Circle

My tenth year doing this feature!

NB Budget 2022: Staying Healthy

New Brunswick would appear to be in a very reasonable neighbourhood when it comes to several healthcare metrics (per capita): spending, acute care beds, hospitals, and physicians. So why does the system feel so strained?

NB Budget 2020: Is Demographics Destiny?

At the time of writing, this budget [https://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/departments/finance/budget/2020-2021/budget.html] may or may not pass, due to it being a minority government. Budget approvals are always considered confidence votes, so if it is not approved, expect an election. In any

Legibility and the Firm

I recently took a sales course for my job. Some of the discussion there prompted some thoughts about ideas I've read/heard and how they relate to the modern business world. Legibility I initially came across the concept of "legibility" in a book review [https://slatestarcodex.

Considerations on a Universal Basic Income Scenario

A universal basic income [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income] is an idea that's getting some buzz. I decided to do some rough calculations to see what an implementation would look like. The Scenario A universal basic income (UBI) is a concept where everyone in a country/

NB Budget 2019 - We've got the power?

I've written an analysis of the New Brunswick provincial budget for the [https://danbscott.ghost.io/nb-budget-2015-by-the-numbers/] past [https://danbscott.ghost.io/nb-budget-2016-in-context/] four [https://danbscott.ghost.io/nb-budget-2017-looking-local/] years [https://danbscott.ghost.io/nb-budget-2018-getting-educated/] now. As always, my goal is to focus on the facts more than

Pirates and Vikings

This post contains 2.1 book reviews. The two books are The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates by Peter T. Leeson and The Sea Wolves: A History of the Vikings by Lars Brownworth. The extra 10 percent is two chapters from David Friedman's book Legal Systems

NB Budget 2018 - Getting Educated

As in previous years, I've written the post below to provide a summary of New Brunswick's latest provincial budget, which was released today. I've also chosen to take a closer look at the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development this time. Where Things

Free Market Environmentalism

As mentioned at the top of my previous post, this post is a book review. It's quite a lengthy post so it took a while to find time to write it; I hope it was worth the wait. Free Market Environmentalism for the Next Generation (abbreviated FME below)

Economic Dashboard

I was pretty tired this weekend, and away the weekend before that, but now I'm back with a post that I hope was worth the wait. The Alberta provincial government has a very useful online portal called the Alberta Economic Dashboard [http://economicdashboard.albertacanada.com/]. (It's

3 Neat Infographics

I recently came across a website called Visual Capitalist [http://www.visualcapitalist.com] that has a lot of interesting infographics on economics and related topics. This post shares three of them, but there are a lot more to check out on their website. Visual Capitalist is based in Vancouver, so

NB Budget 2015 - By the numbers

This is not a political blog, and I have no intention of making it one. However, I believe that it's important for all citizens of this province to be aware of our fiscal situation. I hope this post can serve as a useful summary of what is in

Economic Development Ideas for NB

For this week's post, I wanted to share some ideas about economic development in New Brunswick. Most of them are things I've discussed on Facebook before, and I doubt any of these ideas are original—I just think they're worth promoting. Four Ideas Immigration