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An economist provides insight into how inflation is measured, where it comes from and how it is impacting Canadians and the economy at large.
The latest data shows imports of bottle rockets, sparklers and other fireworks at a record pace, even as consumer demand appears likely to wane. That could create opportunities for patient revelers.
An economist explains why imposing price caps to ensure shoppers can still afford to feed their families healthy food will only make things worse.
The Fed officially began its biggest inflation fight in four decades.
When entire sectors shut down, the demand for energy plummets.
Some of the problems have been easing, but there are lots of reasons to expect more turbulence in the months ahead.
More housing supply doesn’t mean lower prices. If policy-makers want to make homes more affordable, they must tackle developers who drive up prices and consider taxing capital gains on homes.
The black stuff is suddenly much more expensive – the question is whether smallhold farmers will see any of the proceeds.
The COVID-19 pandemic revealed how disruptions to global supply chains could also affect access to health care.
Ironically, it is the “ivory-tower” economists who tend to do the most interesting, and valuable, work.
Shutdowns at microchip factories, panic-buying by electronics manufacturers, and legions of workers and home-schoolers needing new devices, have put a global squeeze on the electronics market.
A program intended to reduce coca production ended up giving two Latin American countries a big boost to their flower power.
Prices are the signals the private sector relies on to direct resources. Snuffing out these signals may prove too costly for consumers in the end.
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, people are stockpiling essential supplies. But policy-makers may be able to influence both the supply and demand through public announcements and advisories.
An economist explains why turkeys defy the economic laws of supply and demand.
Is the 61% spike in the price of Brazil nuts this year because we’re going nuts for nuts?
The housing affordability measures in this budget involve not much more than tinkering.
Avocado demand is driven not just by their supposed health benefits, but by their newness, exclusivity and symbolic, aspirational value to a burgeoning middle class.
To see why, one must only consider the core economic principle of supply and demand.
Top contributors
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Clinical associate professor, Boston University
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Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney
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Assistant Professor Supply Chain Management & Social Responsibility, Hanken School of Economics
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Lecturer in Logistics, Technological University Dublin
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Scientia Professor of Evolutionary Ecology; Academic Lead of UNSW's Grand Challenges Program, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Economics, University of Canberra
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Honorary Senior Fellow in Health Service Research, University of Birmingham
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Lecturer in Economics, University of Bath
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Professor, Department of Geography and Canada Research Chair in Health Service Geographies, Simon Fraser University
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Senior Lecturer in Marketing, University of Huddersfield
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Professor of History; Special Advisor to the PVC Research and Enterprise, University of Hertfordshire
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Associate professor, Swinburne University of Technology
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Research Scientist, The University of Texas at Austin
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Co-Director: Centre for Competition Law and Economics, Stellenbosch University
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Professor of Agri-Environmental Economics, University of Kent
