Econ Americas

This is Chapter 20 of Financial Sovereignty for Canadians: Untether Yourself from the Ottawa Leviathan. Do you hear and see “Buy gold!” often and in suspiciously worded advertisements? Gold is ripe for such appeals. It is a symbol of wealth, but the layman knows little about it for investment and wealth protection. One cannot blame him. The variety of applicable strategies and available stocks are enough to make a man cross-eyed.

This is Chapter 19 of Financial Sovereignty for Canadians: Untether Yourself from the Ottawa Leviathan. One-third of Canadian millennials prefer going solo when it comes to managing and investing their money. Online financial education and tools are changing the rules of the game and threatening to dethrone financial advisors, just as email is dethroning Canada Post’s monopoly on letters.

On September 11–12, my Econ Americas colleagues and I will host a historic event for the formation of Alberta as a free nation: Capitalism & Morality Calgary. We are thrilled with the influential and provocative speakers—26 at last count—who have accepted our invitations. Beyond content, we are focused on providing a regal venue for a celebratory, refined, and festive occasion.

Jim Blanchard, who passed away in 1999, is a hero of the American dream and a role model for those who wish to combine activism with entrepreneurial endeavors. (Jefferson Companies) When we hear of sound money, the gold standard, and precious-metals investing, various names come to mind: Murray Rothbard, Ron Paul, Doug Casey, Mark Skousen, and Harry Browne.

This is Chapter 18 of Financial Sovereignty for Canadians: Untether Yourself from the Ottawa Leviathan. In the US Mountain States, digital entrepreneurs can find a convenient, cost-effective place to do business. Wyoming—whose emblems are the bison and a bucking horse and rider—has, over many decades, established itself as an attractive jurisdiction.

A line in a recent National Post news story left me aghast: “Economists are nearly unanimous in their support for the $381-billion deficit Ottawa plans to run in 2021.” One of Canada’s more reasonable newspapers, founded by Conrad Black, published the outlandish notion that unprecedented Keynesian deficit spending is plain-vanilla economics. This assertion, no doubt the honest belief of the reporter, reflects an opaque field lacking bearings.

Mark Skousen with Alan Greenspan at the 2014 New Orleans Investment Conference in Louisiana. (@MarkSkousen1) Conventional education in the West is so devoid of finance that its progeny, aside from the few with astute parents, are illiterate on such matters. Mountains of student debt, around half of which will never be paid back, stand as testament to this shortcoming. While I dodged that bullet by way of an athletic scholarship, my financial education was similarly pitiful.

A line in a recent National Post news story left me aghast: “Economists are nearly unanimous in their support for the $381-billion deficit Ottawa plans to run in 2021.” One of Canada’s more reasonable newspapers, founded by Conrad Black, published the outlandish notion that unprecedented Keynesian deficit spending is plain-vanilla economics. This assertion, no doubt the honest belief of the reporter, reflects an opaque field lacking bearings.

On June 30, 2026, more than 140 companies announced they were joining forces to launch a new dollar-based stablecoin—OUSD—later this year. Participating companies include BlackRock, Google, Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, Coinbase, and Ripple. This announcement illustrates where the stablecoin industry has pivoted and landed. The crypto technology, purportedly designed to defy the traditional financial system, is now reinforcing the existing digital payment infrastructure and the US dollar’s dominance.

This is Chapter 17 of Financial Sovereignty for Canadians: Untether Yourself from the Ottawa Leviathan. Whenever Canadians express an interest in making a home in the United States, my first recommendation is that they examine the TN visa. Its genesis was the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which entered into force in 1994,1 and the chief advantage to this status is that it has no application prior to arrival at the border.