Reading Time: 4 minutes By raising interest rates, central bankers are moving away from one of their prime purposes: to maximize employment
Tag: Banking
Mainstream media is full of fake news
Reading Time: 4 minutes Few realize the extent to which the financial establishment uses fake news to fool the public
Bold moves towards a new Alberta economy
Reading Time: 3 minutes Intangible assets underpin many of Alberta’s most exciting growth opportunities and the provincial government can help these businesses succeed
Bringing Alberta’s waning economy back to life
Reading Time: 3 minutes Many of the Alberta economy’s best new ideas can’t get off the ground for lack of sufficient support from the province and its investors
Another European financial crisis brewing
Reading Time: 4 minutes The next crisis will be triggered by the mounting bad debts of commercial banks
Which NDP will introduce the “Act to End Predatory Lending”?
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Notley government can make an ideological point, or it can leverage the power of Albertans to build a better and fairer small-dollar loan market
Payday lenders might be vampires . . .
Reading Time: 3 minutes But they can also be a life saver when the need for cash is urgent and credit from traditional sources is unavailable
Big banks face Uber-like threat
Reading Time: 3 minutes Big banks will survive only if they adjust to a world where their traditional dominant position can no longer be taken for granted