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Mike Moffatt
Former ContributorEconomistLondon, Canada

Mike Moffatt is a contributing writer for The Globe and Mail. He's an Assistant Professor in the Business, Economics and Public Policy (BEPP) group at the Richard Ivey School of Business at Western University. He also does private sector consulting for the chemical industry.

Latest articles

opinion
How Canada can create more rental housing
Mike Moffatt and Ken Boessenkool
opinion
Governments seem to be missing the point on Canada’s housing crisis
Ken Boessenkool and Mike Moffatt
opinion
The battles have been won, and the old political axioms are dead. Carbon taxes are here to stay
Ken Boessenkool and Mike Moffatt
opinion
We aren’t restarting the economy. We’re climbing a mountain
Mike Moffatt and John McNally
opinion
Bank of Canada should take bold approach to target policy
Mike Moffatt
Mike Moffatt
economy
Sony tariff case provides further evidence of an iPod tax
economy
Tariff paperwork may snag iPods yet
economy
The mystery of the budget, the iPod and the tariff code
budget 2013
Canadian consumers will feel the pain of Ottawa’s tariff hikes
Consumers shoulder burden of Canada’s complex tariff system
economy lab
Is Flaherty’s mortgage move setting a bad policy precedent?
Canada’s unemployed: Bad training, or bad choices?
economy
Blame the Bank of Canada for stubbornly high retail prices
economy
Why Obama's minimum wage argument is flawed
economy lab
Why hiking minimum wage is useless in fighting poverty
economy
U.S. hyperinflation? The markets know better
economy
How did the normally accurate Bank of Canada fail to forecast 2012 economic downturn
economy lab
BoC listening to wrong voices in ‘dead cash’ debate
economy
Sorry, Egg Farmers of Canada, taxing competition out of the market is not the answer
economy
With bond yields near all-time lows, is U.S. debt that risky?