ECONOMY
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Is Inflation About to Take Off? That’s the Wrong Question
The warnings that higher inflation lurks around the corner are starting to show up everywhere. They are appearing in some…
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Pandemic housing market to stay hot in 2021, but economists expect a hangover later in the year
Article content continued It’s been very strong, and that strength can’t be sustained forever Stephen Brown, Capital Economics Yet those…
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How Iraq’s economic crisis affects its traditional and non-traditional security sector
As Iraq enters 2021, an economic crisis looms on the horizon, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the drop in…
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Powell sees no interest rate hikes on the horizon as long as inflation stays low
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell affirmed his commitment to keeping interest rates low for the foreseeable future even as he…
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Biden Outlines $1.9 Trillion Spending Package to Combat Virus and Downturn
WASHINGTON — President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Thursday proposed a $1.9 trillion rescue package to combat the economic downturn…
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A Look at What’s in Biden’s $1.9 Trillion Stimulus Plan
The incoming Biden administration is expected to unveil a $1.9 trillion stimulus plan on Thursday that offers a wish list…
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Why Confederation is both the cause of and the solution to our economic woes
Annamie Paul, the new Green Party leader, and Stephen Poloz, the former Bank of Canada governor, aren’t obvious allies in…
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Unemployment Claims Rise Sharply, Showing New Economic Pain
Ten months after the coronavirus crisis decimated the labor market, the resurgent pandemic keeps sending shock waves through the American…
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When Will Interest Rates Rise? Fed Chair Says ‘No Time Soon’
“They’re committed to ensuring that there is not another taper tantrum,” said Subadra Rajappa, head of U.S. rates strategy at…
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Dismantling white privilege starts with undoing racist housing policies
The disgraceful, failed insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6 made clear the consequences of our country’s history of…
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