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President Muhammadu Buhari raises his fist during an inspection of honour guards on parade to mark Democracy Day in Abuja, on June 12, 2019. Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images

Buhari’s COVID-19 economic plan: old wine in new wineskins

President Buhari’s Post COVID-19 economic recovery plan is neither novel nor ground-breaking.
Federal Labor and the party’s current leader, Anthony Albanese, have been advocating high-speed rail since they were last in government. Lukas Coch/AAP

Look beyond a silver bullet train for stimulus

The federal opposition’s idea for a bullet train from Melbourne to Brisbane is not a good use of a generation’s worth of infrastructure spending. It won’t even work as an economic stimulus.
A sign in Texas in 1939, at the end of the Great Depression. (The New York Public Library/Unsplash)

Put your trust in taxes during the coronavirus pandemic recovery

The Canadian federal government’s COVID-19 Economic Response Plan includes tax-related measures. It’s helpful to examine tax supports for individuals by considering the past, present and future.

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