Governments around the world—including Canada—have injected an enormous amount of liquidity into the financial system.
interest rates
August 17, 2021
10:10AM
January 27, 2021
9:11AM
A one percentage point increase in the effective interest rate would increase Ottawa's annual debt interest costs by $13.8 billion.
January 20, 2021
11:55AM
The Trudeau government will run a record budget deficit approaching $400 billion.
October 23, 2020
11:45AM
The federal debt will reach nearly 70 per cent of GDP by 2050.
September 17, 2020
4:43PM
The federal budget deficit in 2020-21 is an esitmated $343.2 billion.
September 3, 2020
3:21PM
Debt interest will cost Ottawa an estimated $19.5 billion this year.
August 20, 2020
4:27PM
In the 1990s, federal debt-interest costs routinely eclipsed 30 per cent of revenues.
January 10, 2019
11:13AM
Workers aged 55 years and over hold one-fifth of the jobs in Canada.
December 21, 2018
11:07AM
Unemployment is lower than it’s been in at least 42 years.
December 21, 2018
10:39AM
Sale prices in the Greater Toronto Area at the end of 2016 were almost 110 per cent higher than a decade prior.