Columnists
Duncan Cameron
| World commercial expansion is dependent on payments made in the U.S. dollar, a currency that all nations -- except the U.S. -- have to earn through export surpluses, or go into debt. |
Blog
Rinaldo Walcott
| Representation in its basest sense has come to stand in place for actual change when no change is happening at all. |
Columnists
Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
| U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew announced Wednesday that the revised $20 bill will feature the portrait of the legendary abolitionist Harriet Tubman. What better tribute to her lifetime of struggle? |
Columnists
Jim Stanford
| The dollar rising with the oil price is merely a confirmation that most financial traders think the same way -- not confirmation that Canada's "fundamentals" have been enhanced by higher oil prices. |
Blog
Erin Weir
| A report recently released by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute claims Canada does not suffer from Dutch disease. Unfortunately, the studies the authors draw on for this conclusion are riddled by it. |
Columnists
Jim Stanford
| Want to know why Canada's currency is sky-high despite our sluggish recovery, our large and persistent current account deficit, and our lousy export performance? |
Columnists
Jim Stanford
| The most interesting comments from Mark Carney last week, in releasing the Bank's semi-annual Monetary Policy Report, dealt with the relationship between the price of oil and the Canadian currency. |
News
Cathryn Atkinson
| If it gains a majority, the Harper government plans to issue a new $5 coin from the Royal Canadian Mint with the profile of Stephen Harper sharing space with that of Queen Elizabeth II. |
Columnists
Duncan Cameron
| As the host of the Toronto G20 summit, Canada sabotaged the French/U.K. proposal to introduce a bank tax, and refused discussion of a Financial Transactions Tax. This set the stage for the Seoul flop. |
Blog
Lindsay Beyerstein
| Last week, the Federal Reserve announced a plan to buy an additional $600 billion worth of Treasury bonds in an attempt to stimulate the economy... |
Columnists
Duncan Cameron
| When faced with a choice between acting on its own behalf, or helping out the world financial system, the U.S. looks to itself. Yet it is surprised when China does this too. |
Columnists
Duncan Cameron
| The story of Greece (and the PIIGS: Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Spain) making the rounds did not include the bankers who created the problem. |