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William Watson — The Carney rule: If you find a dollar, spend it

William Watson — The Carney rule: If you find a dollar, spend it

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William Watson: Why price discrimination shouldn't bother you

William Watson: Why price discrimination shouldn't bother you

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William Watson: Foreign investment isn't key. Business investment is

William Watson: Foreign investment isn't key. Business investment is

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23.04.2026 10

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William Watson: Carney’s 'forward guidance' is mainly 'backward spinning'

William Watson: Carney’s 'forward guidance' is mainly 'backward spinning'

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William Watson: Politicians are no better investors than the rest of us

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William Watson: The U.S.-Iran war by the numbers

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14.04.2026 20

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William Watson: Armageddon postponed, now back to dairy quotas and CUSMA

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09.04.2026 20

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William Watson: Open the highway, you crazy New Brunswickers!

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07.04.2026 20

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William Watson: User-pay is a good principle for infrastructure

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02.04.2026 20

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William Watson: Not just his DNA makes Avi Lewis a blast from the past

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William Watson: Defence spending debacles are nothing new to Canada

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William Watson: Ottawa should get behind C.D. Howe's 'Big Bang'

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William Watson: Some surprising numbers on wealth and home ownership

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19.03.2026 30

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William Watson: Smithian curiosity keeps economics moving ahead

12.03.2026 40

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William Watson: Trump is no FDR but Carney may be a Mackenzie King

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William Watson: The two best things about Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations

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William Watson: Trump or no Trump, the U.S. is our ally

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William Watson: Maybe America’s golden age is really a thing

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William Watson: Olympics need to deal with rampant medal inflation

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William Watson: The problems with trying to measure productivity

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19.02.2026 30

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William Watson: We need a Minor Projects Office. And skip the office

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17.02.2026 20

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William Watson: We should preach less, carry a bigger stick

12.02.2026 10

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William Watson: Let Canadians drive EV policy, not Ottawa

10.02.2026 10

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William Watson: Does Poilievre really have a Trump problem? 

05.02.2026 10

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William Watson: Work may now be 24/7 but, more and more, it’s also 9 to 5

03.02.2026 10

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William Watson: Trump's tariffs hurt more than their average level suggests

29.01.2026 10

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William Watson: Trump’s latest move proves Carney’s Davos analysis was correct

28.01.2026 10

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William Watson: Carney undervalues the old (i.e., 2024’s) rules-based order

22.01.2026 10

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William Watson: Just give Trump the damn peace prize!

20.01.2026 20

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William Watson: Security guarantees have an unhappy history

15.01.2026 20

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William Watson: Overheated revelry over TV’s 'Heated Rivalry'

13.01.2026 20

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William Watson: Think three-strikes-and-you’re-out is unfair? How about 26?

08.01.2026 20

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Opinion: How our columnists saw 2025: Q4

02.01.2026 20

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Opinion: How our columnists saw 2025: September

31.12.2025 30

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Opinion: How our columnists saw 2025: July and August

30.12.2025 20

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William Watson: Parliament and Congress both under-produced in 2025. Good!

30.12.2025 30

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How a Reclusive Ex-Glencore Trader Became Indonesia's Nickel King

29.12.2025 20

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Opinion: How our columnists saw 2025: Q2

24.12.2025 30

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Opinion: How our columnists saw 2025: Q1

23.12.2025 20

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William Watson: A bad year for humbug thanks to White House Scrooge

23.12.2025 10

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William Watson: Home for Christmas — and every other day, too

18.12.2025 20

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William Watson: What we need is an affordability crisis for government

16.12.2025 20

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William Watson: Does America First really favour Canada First, too?

11.12.2025 20

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William Watson: Governments should forget about productivity for a while

09.12.2025 20

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William Watson: Will pipeline suffer the death of a thousand rent-seeking slices?

04.12.2025 30

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William Watson: We need a memorandum of understanding on cost vs. affordability

02.12.2025 30

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William Watson: Carney takes up the art of the political deal

27.11.2025 30

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William Watson: Does Carney’s 'round the world every 44 days' really help Canada? 

25.11.2025 20

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William Watson: Real-time budget spreadsheets reveal a lot

20.11.2025 20

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William Watson: TikTok politics won’t fix the U.S. fiscal mess

18.11.2025 20

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