Alexei Navalny was asked what his message would be to people if he was killed.

His response from the Academy Award winning documentary about him directed by Roher

#BreakingNews from Rideau Hall. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shuffles his cabinet in a major way. 30 changes #cdnpoli

Mortgage interest costs now adding nearly a full percentage point to headline 🇨🇦 CPI. Subtracting this one component, headline inflation is down to 2.5%.

39,999,998… 39,999,999… 40,000,000!

Canada’s population has officially reached 40 million people! 🎉 statcan.gc.ca/en/subjects-st… #40millionCDNS #40MillionAndGrowing

Had a constructive discussion with representatives from the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (CVCA) about the state of business investment and small businesses in Canada including the challenges faced due to regulatory burden and economic instability.

.Sean Speer: The future belongs to North America

thehub.ca/2023-04-28/sea…

1) On Saturday, officials with the World Health Organization sounded the most optimistic the #pandemic will end this year. 'We're coming to that point where we can look at #COVID19 in the same way we look at seasonal influenza,' Dr. Michael Ryan said. youtube.com/watch?v=mo-TtI…

A source I trust tells me that the Swiss Governing council will hold a press conference about Credit Suisse tomorrow (Sunday) at 6:30 PM local (Zurich) time.

No idea what they will say, and it can always be delayed or canceled.

But this should add to the expectations that we

Hey, so if you're an econ instructor teaching macro this semester, I've got something for you.

I'm sharing an up-to-date slide deck that describes our recent inflationary experience using the conceptual frameworks that we teach our students:
users.nber.org/~jwolfers/teac… #TeachEcon

Inflation at 3- and 6-month horizons are at the top of the Bank of Canada's target range; the 9-month rate is falling rapidly

THERE IT IS: McCarthy agreed to give Freedom Caucus the keys to the car on pushing for national debt default.

The risks this year are the most dangerous we’ve encountered in the 25 years since ian bremmer started Eurasia Group.

Here are the Top 10 risks of 2023 🧵⤵️

#TopRisks2023

1/8. A point which is often lost in discussions of inflation and central bank policy. Inflation is fundamentally the outcome of the distributional conflict, between firms, workers, and taxpayers. It stops only when the various players are forced to accept the outcome.

I can't wrap my head around what 'otherwise strong but in a liquidity crisis' really means when you're talking about crypto. It's all liquidity, that's the game, there's no connection to the real economy so no recovery value that would imply longer-tern solvency.

NEW: CUPE says “we will be at work tomorrow morning.”

#onpoli #onted

Holy sh*t, and wtf?! I’m sorry, but that’s the only appropriate reaction to this. nytimes.com/2022/10/17/bus…

Good Morning from #Germany , which is heading toward an electricity crisis. The 1y ahead power price has skyrocketed to almost €1,000 per megawatt hour. The electricity price has risen by 720% ytd. Such increases will bankrupt many energy-intensive firms.

Canada just hiked by 100 bps & rates are priced to be hiked further to 3.6%, the highest Bank of Canada rate since '08

This is while their private sector debt/GDP is higher than what Japan experienced at the peak of their bubble, when the Imperial Palace's ''worth'' > California

In Ontario, up to 60% of the new supply in cities was bought by investors.

We're pretending this is natural market demand?