It is a remarkable deja vu to behold: the Canadian stock market in June 2014 is once more within striking distance of its all time global-debt-fuelled-consumption-commodity-bubble-peak briefly seen 6 long years ago in June 2008. Four short months later, the index had lost 50% of its value by October 2008 (as it also did from its previous peak in the 2000 dot-bomb implosion). But Canada has much more going for it today than in 2007-08 right? With our top 3 world’s most expensive real estate markets, most indebted consumers ever and weakening global demand for our exports, surely this time will be different?
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The spike in Umich consumer inflation expectations is nothing more than a misnomer. The problem is that it is taking place at a time when the working class is losing bargaining power at an alarming rate. Fully 67% of households see higher unemployment over the coming year (was…
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