There has been no shortage of analysis and commentary concerning the stratospheric rise of Vancouver’s real estate market and the near-ruinous consequences that
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Category: Economics
The Price of Money
When people today talk about the cost of money, what they are generally referring to is the interest rate charged by lenders for
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A Crusoe Economy
When commentators today talk about “Crusoe Economics”, what they are in fact referring to is the seldom-used analytical framework sometimes employed by economists to reduce complex market
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Inflation, Lies, and Statistics
When it comes to the subject of central bank money-printing and its effect on the prices of goods and service in the broad
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How the Fed “Prints” Money
With the Reserve Bank of Australia recently musing about the potential of engaging in unconventional monetary policy to combat growing weakness in the
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