@trevortombe @globeandmail Having now read the piece, I see that some of what I had put in my other thread was related to part of what the opinion writer, Kenneth Whyte, had written. @trevortombe @globeandmail More to come 2/N

@AlanMackworth @kau_mad @JustinTrudeau @HonAhmedHussen @KirstyDuncanMP @NavdeepSBains @joycemurray @HedyFry @NeurIPSConf @Canada Consider a thought experiment about how to possibly solve this class of problems. Namely modifying countries' immigration systems to better accommodate the flow of university graduate students, post docs, and various levels of professors to conferences and events. 1/n @AlanMackworth @kau_mad @JustinTrudeau @HonAhmedHussen @KirstyDuncanMP @NavdeepSBains @joycemurray @HedyFry @NeurIPSConf @Canada There is also another important group, namely practitioners in industry and government. They can be caught up with visa issues from time to time, but the first group may have enough of a different experience to think through separately. 2/n

@tutor2uEcon @lindayueh /1 A central bank is in no way equipped to directly drive the factors of economic growth. The influential factors for economic growth are: Fiscal policy: tax policy (tax rates & savings, the mix of taxes & Marginal Effective Tax Rates on investment in particular). Labour policy: @tutor2uEcon @lindayueh 2/ Labour policy (education, training, retraining; and other factors related to enabling people to ups kill and learn about better paying jobs they can be productive in). Related to this is education & training systems to help get that training available. Also R&D: private ...