Reading Time: 3 minutes Controlling inflation with interest rates can work, but at a terrible cost
Tag: Interest rates
Economic growth coming close to a dead stop by end of 2022
Reading Time: 4 minutes And the Trudeau government has no convincing plan to address the problem
Hunker down Canadians. Economic storm clouds on Canada’s horizon
Reading Time: 3 minutes Supply chain problems, aging demographics and the push for net zero will drive up government spending
Thanks to government, housing and energy are becoming luxuries
Reading Time: 3 minutes Much of the blame for sky-high housing and energy prices is on governments
What the Biden administration means for Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes Increased U.S. government spending will put upward pressure on U.S. and Canadian interest rates
Federal finances remain vulnerable to fluctuating interest rates
Reading Time: 4 minutes A rise in interest rates could lead the government into a downward cycle of increased deficits. And that means higher taxes
Canadian economy will stall in 2020
Reading Time: 3 minutes The next two years will probably bring feeble increases in GDP, in line with 2019’s uninspiring performance. Job creation is likely to decelerate
Quit blaming workers for rising inflation
Reading Time: 4 minutes By raising interest rates, central bankers are moving away from one of their prime purposes: to maximize employment
Imagining the worst, getting the best out of your business
Reading Time: 4 minutes The exchange rate could shift, interest rates could rise, NAFTA could be rewritten or buried. Do you have strategies to deal with such changes?
Aging population upending current interest rate policy
Reading Time: 3 minutes With the number of seniors living off retirement income rising, increasing interest rates no longer a precursor to a cooling economy