Can Governments make economies grow?

[bucket]

China's growth was bound to stop when they put a limit on the number of children a family can have.

By reversing that decision will make their economy restart. There will be a lag but it will grow again.

Canada is sort of screwed because we have an aging population. People don't want 5 kids to grow the population which creates growth.

We have resigned ourselves to be an export driven economy. Limits growth.

If canada had 100 million people would we be having this conversation?

[farmaholic]

Governments stimulating the economy is like your Missus getting breast implants... It will stimulate your "interest" for a while until the novelty wears off. Then they will have to find the next stimulus to pique your interest. All unnatural growth. If it ain't going to happen on it's own will the end result ever be what you hoped for? Or do you have to keep adding "stimuli".


Family size. my goodness, who would want to crimp their lifestyle with more than two kids, besides raising kids costs money. Sad state of affairs when a society can't even maintain itself because of birthrate...what does that tell you. If you and the Missus never had more than two kids... you've only replaced yourselves. No wonder we have to rely on immigration to sustain ourselves. Hard for the population to grow when too many unemployed young men are living in their parent's basements living in a fantasy world gaming and living off their parents. And all the "stimulus" they need is on the internet a mouse click away. Society is broken...

[TOM4CWB]

China Pigs Addicted to Foreign Feed as Crop Imports Surge: Chart
Alan Bjerga
January 6, 2016 — 12:26 PM MST

China, the world’s largest pork-consuming country, has largely abandoned a goal of self-sufficiency when it comes to feeding the pigs, cattle and poultry needed to satisfy growing domestic demand for meat.

Last year, China’s negative trade balance in feed-related commodities for livestock rose to a record 88.4 million metric tons, according to United Nations data. Imports and exports were mostly balanced until a decade ago, when economic growth and demand for protein surged. China alone will account for 64 percent of the world’s soybean imports in the year that began in September, U.S. Department of Agriculture data show.
“China can do anything it sets its mind to, but it can’t do everything,” said Gary Blumenthal, chief executive officer of World Perspectives Inc., a global agriculture consultant in Washington. “It doesn’t have the arable land to produce everything it needs, so feed is an area where they’ve accepted dependence on imports.”

China is also short of water... also a bigger problem.

[MBgrower]

Govts only get in the way. When they claim they will grow the economy what they are really saying is that they will try get in the way less. Greg selinger truly believes he is responsible for any signs of econokic growth in mb. What a fool.

[LEP]

If governments created growth that would be like the perpetual motion machine.

But they havent figured that out yet.

[LEP]

If governments created growth that would be like the perpetual motion machine.

But they havent figured that out yet.

[biglentil]

Its taking larger and larger doses to keep the patient alive. Pucker up the next treatment may sting some the 'bail in'.

[burnt]

A relevant article from the Financial Post shortly after PM Kardashian was elected.

Their view? Running deficits stimulates economic decline. Surprise!

[URL="http://http://business.financialpost.com/fp-comment/justin-trudeaus-ill-advised-deficit-promises"]http://http://business.financialpost.com/fp-comment/justin-trudeaus-ill-advised-deficit-promises[/URL]

[cottonpicken]

If it worked we would all be speaking Russian.

[Hamloc]

For the first time in history the collective provincial debt has surpassed the debt of the federal government. All political leaders in Canada with exception of Brad Wall are talking higher taxes, greater deficit financing and more restrictive legislation all recipes for slow economic growth. Look at Europe with the exception of Germany, many countries with high taxes and slow growth. Funny how Canadian governments and Canadians themselves think the same policies will yield different results.