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Canadian residential real estate and farmland have historically proven to be strategic hedges against inflation.
Crude is key to inflation. Here’s why has it been going up so much.
Massive stimulus plans combined with rising production costs could lead to expectations that inflation will rise. And that alone could trigger an inflationary spiral not seen in 25 years.
Now that we are recovering from recession, there’s no telling how low we could push the unemployment rate. One estimate is 3.5%.
Some say the world’s leading cryptocurrency will hit six figures before Christmas. Are they right?
If inflation follows economic recovery, the Bank of England may be hesitant to raise interest rates enough to hold it back.
Yes, the bank would effectively pay you to borrow money. But negative interest rates won’t please savers, nor will they meet the big challenges of economic recovery.
New Zealand’s housing market is ill designed to create the surpluses that would force down values. Only the state can change that.
Massive borrowing to fund NZ’s economic recovery due to COVID-19 cannot be written off without the risk of worsening the crisis it was designed to meet.
During the pandemic, there have been fewer claims on private health insurance. So why are premiums going up?
Guaranteeing that it will overshoot its target for some time is the best way of getting inflation up.
Inflation has been low, but if the Fed isn’t careful, keeping rates too low, too long could lead to runaway inflation.
Although COVID-19 measures have had a negative impact on food supply in Nigeria, there are other factors responsible for the dramatic rise in food prices.
Zimbabwe wants to issue a sovereign bond to raise $3.5 billion it has agreed to pay as compensation to white farmers, but the economic and political conditions aren’t conducive to such an issuance.
President Buhari’s Post COVID-19 economic recovery plan is neither novel nor ground-breaking.
Argentina’s new President Alberto Fernández has no easy option to address yet another crisis.
We could welcome the news that prices have been rising much more slowly since the coronavirus pandemic – or we could get nervous.
It’s time for the Bank of Canada to do more to help provincial governments deal with the financial fallout of the coronavirus pandemic.
Given the structural limitations of Canadian federalism, the use of the Emergencies Act during the coronavirus pandemic could cause conflict between provincial and federal governments.
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