Op-Ed
On March 23, the Bank of Canada announced the upcoming suspension of some of its major asset-purchase programs. This is good news. Financial stresses at the beginning of the pandemic a year ago led…
Op-Ed
The Bank of Canada stuck to the status quo last week, leaving its target for the overnight interest rate at 25 basis points and maintaining quantitative easing (QE) at a rate of at least $4 billion…
Op-Ed
Suddenly, inflation is in the news. In Canada and abroad, spending is surging and COVID-impaired production is struggling to keep up. Key commodities – oil, lumber and metals – are expensive.
It is…
