Kevin Carmichael
Economics Columnist and Editor at Large at The Logic
Economics Columnist, The Logic
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1 week ago |
thelogic.co | Kevin Carmichael
The 1950s are often remembered as a time of plenty, the era when many assume President Donald Trump thinks America was last great. For Canada, at least, the data suggests otherwise. The country suffered five recessions between 1947 and 1961, according to the C.D. Howe Institute’s business cycle council, as a trade-dependent economy struggled to find its footing in a radically changed global order.
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2 weeks ago |
thelogic.co | Kevin Carmichael
Expertise has been given a second chance. Mark Carney is nothing if not an expert. Canada’s prime minister has degrees in economics from Harvard and Oxford. His first job was at Goldman Sachs, a fixture in the premier league of global finance. He held senior jobs at the Bank of Canada and the Finance Department, where he impressed his way into the top job at the central bank. He was poached to run the Bank of England, a fixture in the premier league of global policymaking and financial regulation.
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2 weeks ago |
thelogic.co | Kevin Carmichael
One of the big ideas from the election campaign that concludes today has been the creation of a pathway that would let electricity, oil and natural gas flow easily across the country. Polls have found as many as three quarters of Canadians support the idea as a response to the Trump administration’s economic warfare.
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2 weeks ago |
thelogic.co | Kevin Carmichael
Scary thought, isn’t it? We have our strengths, but we’ve long had the fantastic luck of playing wing on a line centred by the global economy’s dominant player—the French and British empires at the start of our colonial history, and then the U.S. as European power receded.
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3 weeks ago |
thelogic.co | Kevin Carmichael
The polycrisis means Canada’s economic immune system needs a boost as quickly as possible. The prescription could lie in a pattern that Italian polymath Vilfredo Pareto discovered more than 120 years ago, when Wilfrid Laurier was prime minister.
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