Brendan Calder
@BrendanCalder
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Professor Emeritus of Management, GettingItDone course, Rotman School of Management, UToronto/CEO of mortgage banks in the last century.
Toronto Canada
Joined November 2011
In a bit of good news, free-market economist Hernando de Soto has been named as Peru's prime minister. https://t.co/iG8cjocj8L
andina.pe
The President of the Republic, Jose Maria Balcazar, on Monday highlighted the appointment of Hernando de Soto as President of the Council of Ministers (Prime Minister), noting it will ensure economic...
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There are no magic solutions to the problem of high-cost care, only different ways of dealing with expenses. But state intervention just replaces monetary costs with delays and lost opportunities. Freeing people to make their own decisions and spend their own dollars is the way
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So-called "savings" of government interference in medicine come at the expense of access to doctors, diagnostics, and medicines.
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We need change at city hall.
On the top is Nathan Phillips Square in 2021. On the bottom is the same location in 2025. This is what happens when radical progressive ideology takes root in your institutions. DEI thrives. Meritocracy dies. The public realm suffers. But hey, at least we renamed Dundas. Welcome
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Javier in Argentina and now de Soto in Peru! Latin America is on a the right path. Oh Canada!
Peru’s new president has named prominent pro-market economist Hernando de Soto as prime minister
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I heard (or read somewhere) that if the Canadian government were to extract our natural resources properly, not a single Canadian would have to pay a cent of income tax. Parasitic ideological capture destroys everything.
🇨🇦 Every Canadian should read this twice: 🇨🇦 Canada ranks — 🥇 1st in uranium 🥇 1st in potash 🥈 2nd in nickel 🥉 3rd in oil 🏅 5th in gold 💧 1st in freshwater Countries start wars for LESS than this. And somehow we are told we’re too poor to cut taxes, too broke to build
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Bravo!
Welcome to Chapter One of the Playing to Win/Practitioner Insights (PTW/PI) book club. I am reprising the 37 pieces that were ranked highest by readers – and they make up one books-worth of content. The first is Michael Porter’s Three Great Strategy Contributions. He saved the
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I asked Grok how many. https://t.co/EaM8BzU9Rb
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Has Carney made progress on his new housing promise?
Thanks Prime Minister: In 3 Weeks It Will Be ONE FULL YEAR Can We Please See The Exact Number Of Your Build Canada Homes STARTS? Remember Scale & Speed? So 1 Year later is it more than the 9 Units we have been told about?
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Waiting for Carney to be brought in for goalie. FU-USA in jeopardy.
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But maybe maybe we win the US-Can hockey game. Oops, end of 1st period, time to put Carney in goal. FU-USA
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A must watch. Sec Bessent’s Dallas Blueprint: The Clearest Roadmap Yet to Trump’s Economic Security Doctrine Bessent’s Dallas remarks offer one of the clearest, most concise summaries of the foundation of the Trump administration’s economic policy: an economic security–first
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent delivered remarks on tariffs and the economy at the Economic Club of Dallas. His remarks followed a 6-3 Supreme Court decision striking down President Trump's...
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This is a really well-reasoned piece. I recommend it highly. I like both the structure of your diagnosis and your remedy. Nicely done.
Why should we kill the word ‘Strategic’ to save genuine strategy? I just wrote an article about all the parasitic meanings attached to the word, inspired by @RogerLMartin's recent "Fixing Strategy". Check it out, link in the comments below!
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I will read this article when I have access at the office, and I’m sure it’s more nuanced than the headline, but “Out of nowhere”? … c’mon.
Out of nowhere, Canada became poorer than Alabama. How is that possible?
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Carney is running the exact same strategy that won him the last election: poke Trump, insult the U.S., inflame nationalism, and flood the airwaves with “Canada can lead the world” fantasy talk. It’s branding, not governing. He promised interprovincial trade fixed by summer 2025.
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"To bring down the cost of food quickly, Ottawa could eliminate the GST on all food items, scrap the industrial carbon tax, and work with the provinces to remove interprovincial trade barriers to boost competition. Those measures alone would make a meaningful difference."
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Elon Musk: "I am the largest individual taxpayer in history. I've paid over $10B in tax. I thought the IRS might send me a little trophy or something." https://t.co/5FSDkm2sOw
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Oh, but it’s Fox not PBS
Mark Carney gets OBLITERATED on Fox News Forming economic ties with China will backfire You can’t argue with anything that they said. https://t.co/iZ3fBBAw0a
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🎶 those were the days 🎶
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John Ruddick is right to highlight what’s happening in Argentina. The turnaround under Javier Milei has been nothing short of spectacular. After decades of inflation, fiscal chaos and political stagnation, Milei didn’t tinker at the edges — he cut spending, slashed ministries,
🚨 President Javier Milei of Argentina and his radical libertarian agenda is showing the world how to robustly reverse economic stagnancy. Here's the receipts 👇 @JMilei
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Oh Canada!
It just reveals how insignificant our economy is on a global stage on a comparative basis !
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