Is Canada’s Employment Insurance system recession proof?
KATHERINE SCOTT: The need to broaden access to EI is urgent and a more effective EI system requires regular government contributions to expand
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Tag: Interest rates
Expensive housing here to stay unless governments change policies
MARK MILKE: Governments must begin to address their own roles and policies in making and keeping housing prices high
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Summertime and inflation ain’t easy
DAVID MACDONALD: The trouble with interest rate hikes is that they won’t decrease food and gas prices. They’re more likely to cause a recession
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Economic growth coming close to a dead stop by end of 2022
JOCK FINLAYSON and KEN PEACOCK: And the Trudeau government has no convincing plan to address the problem
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Hunker down Canadians. Economic storm clouds on Canada’s horizon
LEE HARDING: Supply chain problems, aging demographics and the push for net zero will drive up government spending
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We’re paying the price for artificially low interest rates
JEROME GESSAROLI: Very low interest rates provide a perverse incentive for politicians to borrow heavily and rack up more debt, since interest costs are reduced
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Bad central bank policy has us heading toward a recession
IAN MADSEN: The next few months may only bring stagnation but a full-blown recession is more likely (FREE)
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Thanks to government, housing and energy are becoming luxuries
MARK MILKE: Killing off cheap energy will be as much a disaster for poor and middle-class Canadians as our calamitous housing policies have been
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To fight inflation, bank rate hike must happen in March
MIGUEL OUELLETTE and OLIVIER RANCOURT: It’s time to tackle the inflation that is undermining our living standards (FREE)
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How to cool Canada’s overheated housing market
PAZ GOMEZ: Rather than distorting housing markets further, Canada needs an economy free from nonsense restrictions on investment and entrepreneurship
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Surprise! Food prices are on their way up
SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS: Prices will go up by as much as five per cent this year, or almost $700 more for groceries for the year for an average Canadian family (FREE)
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What the Biden administration means for Canada
STEVEN GLOBERMAN: Increased U.S. government spending will put upward pressure on U.S. and Canadian interest rates (FREE)
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