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The High Cost of Groceries
The high cost of living continues to be a top-of-the-page news item. Politicians include fighting inflation as a prominent plank… READ MORE
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Granularity of Economics
At its most granular level, the economy is composed of three fundamental factors: labour, capital and land. These factors interact… READ MORE
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Labour Productivity, continued
As documented earlier the global socio-economy has experienced historic growth since the first half of the nineteenth century. Higher per… READ MORE
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US Vehicles entering Canada in Sault Ste Marie – an Update
This post is an update to an earlier post regarding the performance of the local economy in Sault Ste. Marie.… READ MORE
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Structure of Canadian Economies
Statistics Canada uses a classification system to describe Canadian economies: the national economy and the economies of the ten provinces… READ MORE
wisdom for this month
James Graham on the lingering and as yet unresolved effect of the 2008 global Financial Crisis (Reuters digital July 17, 2025)
…We’d been promised that this was the end of history and that everything was inevitably going to be a linear advancement towards progress and improvement. … I had no idea the longer, bigger crises and anger that was going to be coming down the line.
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