Author: Sherry Cooper
I applaud Finance Minister Flaherty’s decision in this week’s Economic Update to postpone balancing the budget at this time of economic uncertainty.
Finance Minister Flaherty recently rebuked European authorities for dragging their heels in devising an adequate action plan to forestall a global recession.
The European debt crisis is the most urgent matter facing the global economy.
The U.S. Treasury says that the decision by Standard & Poor’s rating agency to downgrade U.S. debt is based on flawed analysis.
The global economy is rebounding significantly despite the alarming number of black-swan challenges. Stock markets are rallying in tandem, reflective of the improving economic and financial backdrop. Ironically, the good news has led many to question the need for further monetary stimulus, while at the same time some suggest that without the Federal Reserve’s quantitative…
Prior to the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami, the importance of Japan to the global economy went unrecognized, swamped by the surge in China’s economic power—the new Asian juggernaut.
March 15, 2011
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Bleak Headlines Might Be Overdoing Nuclear Danger According to Some Scientists
As the news of a potential nuclear crisis in Japan worsened, markets were reflecting a “get-me-out-of-everything-risky” mindset, as commodities and stocks were selling off sharply and triple-A government bonds are rallying.
The earthquake, which registered 8.9 on the Richter scale, is the largest to hit Japan in at least 140 years, although the overall ramifications are still very much uncertain and will depend critically on any tsunami-related damages in the Pacific Basin.
Yesterday in St. Thomas, Ontario, and the end of my economic outlook presentation, I said that while we have no idea what natural disasters might befall us, the U.S. and Canada are likely to straddle 3% growth this year and next.