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Wartime Fiscal and Monetary Policy
Despite the market pressuring the Bank of Canada to begin liftoff and start hiking interest rates, they held firm once again this past week....
Interest Rates Do Not Reflect Inflation
Happy Monday Morning!
We got a string of new data this past week confirming inflation in consumer goods, and housing are proving to be more than transitory....
Funding The Biggest Borrower
The calls for impending interest rate hikes continues. CIBC's chief economist, Benjamin Tal, was out recently suggesting the Bank of Canada could hike its benchmark...
Cooling Off Period
The BC Government announced it is looking at several cooling measures for the housing market in 2022. They have highlighted two measures. The first...
Financial Repression
The Bank of Canada continues to slowly drain liquidity after flooding the system with a firehose of cash during the pandemic. Bank of Canada...
The Complicated Path Forward
Consumer price inflation ripped higher in September, surging 4.4% year-over-year, the fastest pace of price increases in 18 years. Let's discuss this further. We...
