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Global and national growth including historic timelines.
A casual look at Figure 1, Canadian GDP performance since 1997 suggests In both cases the economy returned to its… READ MORE
The Great Moderation (GM) of the late 20th century faded into the economic turbulence of the 21st century with a… READ MORE
The economy of India is one of the fastest growing and largest economies in the world. The Canadian economy may… READ MORE
This post is intended to provide basic descriptive statistics for the components of Canada’s Gross National Product using the income… READ MORE
Canada’s labour market as measured by the number of jobs maintained has been resilient given the series of global shocks… READ MORE
This is a fun posting. Banning exports of strategic knowledge and their applications is a common feature of modern international… READ MORE
Part 1 of this post focused on the level of central government debt, Part 2 focuses on the change of… READ MORE
A nation’s GDP is, in effect, the revenue base for the government. A common measure of the debt burden and… READ MORE
Many economists expect a labour shortage in the developed world in the near to medium term due to the structure… READ MORE
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the generally accepted measure of the value of the economy. With some exceptions GDP is… READ MORE
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.
A retired economist just stumbling and bumbling along to the end of the road.
LG Economic Insights 