It’s Alive! Corporate Cash and Business Investment

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Page Title:It’s Alive! Corporate Cash and Business Investment – C.D. Howe Institute
Article Title:It’s Alive! Corporate Cash and Business Investment
URL:https://cdhowe.org/publication/its-alive-corporate-cash-and-business-investment/
Published Date:August 27, 2014
Accessed Date:February 16, 2025

Policymakers should not overreact to perceptions of corporate ‘dead money’, according to a new C.D. Howe Institute report. In “It’s Alive! Corporate Cash and Business Investment,” author Finn Poschmann points out that corporate cash holdings, as a share of output, have not grown since 2010 and that, contrary to popular opinion, business sector investment Canada-wide is growing at roughly the same pace as the economy.

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