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ECRI: Global data decelerating ‘hard’, decoupling not likely

Posted on November 21, 2019 by Danielle Park

ECRI’s Achuthan speaks with CNBC about the continuing cyclical slowdown in U.S. economic growth. On mobile, click here to view video interview. This economic trend could end Wall Street’s bullishness from CNBC.  For the U.S. there’s nothing to be optimistic … Continue reading →

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Canadian insolvencies accelerating at recession-like pace

Posted on November 20, 2019 by Danielle Park

Insolvencies are accelerating at a pace that’s been associated with periods of distress: the start of the 2008-09 financial crisis, immediately before the 1990-92 recession, and during the period of pronounced economic weakness in 1995-96 that was tied to the … Continue reading →

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Di Martino Booth on stealth QE, slowing growth and strain in the indebted oil patch

Posted on November 19, 2019 by Danielle Park

Over the last two months, through liquidity interventions they insist are not ‘QE’, the US Fed has effectively reversed 40% of the quantitative tightening they had attempted over the preceding 21 months.  Relentlessly easier monetary conditions have enabled spending and … Continue reading →

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