5 Factors Threatening the Canadian Economy: Business’ “Dead Money”
For the past two days during our mini-series on the biggest threats to the Canadian economy, we’ve focused mostly on household and consumer spending. But as we all know it can’t just be consumers that support the economy, businesses have to do their share too. But those businesses also ran into trouble during the recession…
Read more5 Factors Threatening the Canadian Economy: Consumer Spending
In the mini-series we’ve been running all week focusing on the biggest threats to the Canadian economy, we’ve looked at the housing market, oil prices, and just yesterday, household debt. Debt is worrisome of course because if people are taking on too much of it (as Canadians have been for the past few years,) they…
Read more5 Factors Threatening the Canadian Economy: Household Debt
So far in our mini-series focusing on the biggest threats to the Canadian economy we’ve looked at oil prices and the housing market. Today we’ll look at one of the most hotly debated topics of them all – household debt. Household debt is definitely one of the biggest threats to the Canadian economy. It’s the…
Read more5 Factors Threatening the Canadian Economy: Oil Prices
Yesterday we kicked off our mini-series on the 5 biggest threats to the Canadian economy with the housing market. Today, we look at what may be an even bigger threat, and something that’s also a very hot topic today – oil prices. The current price for Western Canadian oil is about 30 per cent below…
Read more5 Factors Threatening the Canadian Economy: Housing Slowdown
At the end of every year we take a look back at the biggest things that helped the Canadian economy in that year, and the factors that were the biggest drag on it. This year we thought we’d get a jump on things and take inventory a little early, and maybe compare it with where…
Read moreStephen Poloz Says it’s Time for Businesses to Step Up
During Stephen Poloz’s first interest rate announcement as the new Bank of Canada governor, he was far less hawkish about interest rates and household debt than his predecessor, Mark Carney, ever was. But while Poloz might have a soft stance on those households at the moment there’s one area in which he and Carney agree…
Read moreNewfoundland and Labrador to Outperform other Provinces for Next 2 Years
Newfoundland and Labrador are the places to be right now, as they’re expected to lead in economic growth for 2013 and 2014! During our mini-series on provincial debt, we saw that Newfoundland and Labrador was in trouble. Seeing a huge decline in one of their main resources – fishing – in the early part of…
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