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Canada’s Legal Counterfeiting Ring Is a Product of Progressive Democracy

05/10/2023 Lee Friday

Canada created its central bank during the Great Depression, ostensibly to stabilize the currency and protect the banking system. Today, that system is falling apart, thanks to inflationary central bank policies.

Canada’s Legal Counterfeiting Ring Is a Product of Progressive Democracy

04/25/2023 Mises Wire Lee Friday

In 1934, at the behest of Prime Minister R.B. Bennett and with the approval of Parliament, Canada’s central bank, the Bank of Canada (BOC), was founded. It began operations in 1935. Its job is “to...

Canada’s Impotent Justice System Is the Product of Dysfunctional Canadian Democracy

04/18/2023 Lee Friday

Violent crime is on the rise in Canada, and its progressive democracy is helpless to stop it. Further empowerment of the state makes things worse.

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