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Always look two moves ahead. It’s important in chess and economics
opinion
Will China and Co. really dominate the 21st century? Asian decline is more likely
Simon Commander and Saul Estrin
inside the market
Four biases that confound investors
John De Goey
report on business
Meaningful diversity requires meaningful action from companies and their leaders
Hamlin Grange
opinion
How the pandemic broke central bankers’ orderly world
Andrew Coyne
report on business
The human flaws that fuelled this market crash – and why they keep failing us when investing
In this photo provided by the New York Stock Exchange, a pair of specialists work at their posts on the floor, Friday, May 13, 2022. Stocks rallied on Wall Street Friday, but not enough to claw back all the losses the market has taken in this volatile week of trading. (Courtney Crow/New York Stock Exchange via AP)
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Canada’s McCain Foods halts plans for Russia plant, suspends sales amid invasion of Ukraine
An employee holds a plate of French fries at the McCain French fries factory in Matougues on May 17, 2019. (Photo by Martin BUREAU / AFP)MARTIN BUREAU/AFP/Getty Images
investment ideas
Talking war and market volatility with a giant of economics
Eugene Fama shared the 2013 Nobel for economics in recognition of his work supporting the notion that markets are efficient, incorporating all the available information about a stock’s outlook.
international business
Musk rejects government subsidies for planned Tesla battery plant in Germany
FILE PHOTO: The logo of car manufacturer Tesla is seen at a dealership in London, Britain, May 14, 2021. REUTERS/Matthew Childs
analysis
Fed feat extends the party for stock markets
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell appears on a television screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021. The Federal Reserve will begin dialing back the extraordinary economic aid it's provided since the pandemic erupted last year, a response to high inflation that now looks likely to persist longer than it did just a few months ago. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Canadian Nobel winner David Card has led a credibility revolution in economics
David Card, winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in economics, stands for a portrait in Berkeley, Calif., on Monday, Oct. 11, 2021. Card, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, received the award for his research on minimum wages and immigration. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
your practice
Why many business owners are contemplating an exit
Blue sign hanging at the glass door of a shop saying: "Business for sale".
opinion
Why more advisors at banks are looking to go independent
Jason Pereira
investment ideas
Five metrics bond investors are watching as COVID-19 fears return
In this May 19, 2021 file photo, a sign for a Wall Street building is shown in New York.
opinion
If you got an AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, you made the right decision, according to economics
Blake Shaffer, Stephen Gordon, Andrew Leach, Christine Neill, Tammy Schirle and Trevor Tombe
sports
Kieran Maguire on the economics that gave rise to the failed European Super League
Soccer Football - Arsenal fans protest against owner after failed launch of a European Super League - Emirates Stadium, London, Britain - April 23, 2021 Arsenal fans demonstrate at owner Stan Kroenke's involvement in the failed launch of a European Super League REUTERS/Henry Nicholls TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
opinion
The controversial Super League plan takes the North American model of sports ownership to Europe
Cathal Kelly
opinion
Postpandemic Ottawa should heed Robert Mundell’s warnings on taxes
Konrad Yakabuski
investment ideas
Tightening conditions not yet frightening for Fed and Co.
The Federal Reserve Building is seen through a fence on June 17, 2020 in Washington.
investment ideas
U.S. dollar snapback may jolt post-pandemic recovery
U.S. Dollar banknotes are seen in this photo illustration taken February 12, 2018.
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Dividend investors must prepare for an inflation head-fake in 2021
In this photo provided by the New York Stock Exchange, trader Gregory Rowe works on the trading floor, Monday, Dec. 14.
opinion
Closing the income inequality gap is long overdue in the U.S.
Rita Trichur
report on business
Listen to Restoring Confidence: Why economic and health models get it wrong
Restoring Confidence podcast
international business
U.S. economists Milgrom, Wilson win 2020 Nobel economics prize for work on auction theory
FILE - In this April 17, 2015 file photo shows a gold Nobel Prize medal. Americans Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson have won the Nobel Prize in economics for "improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats." it was announced Monday Oct. 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)
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Crush it: Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem says a crisis is no time for half measures
Tiff Macklem, Governor of the Bank of Canada, is photographed at the Globe and Mail Centre on Sept 101 2020.
opinion
How economics tested positive for COVID-19
Laurence B. Mussio and Douglas J. Porter
report on business
The exciting – but not so realistic – idea of ignoring deficits
In her recent book, The Deficit Myth, Stephanie Kelton, seen here teaching a class in New York on March 6, 2019, eloquently argues the case for Modern Monetary Theory, which holds that countries that borrow in their own currency can never run out of money.
economy
Canada’s economy sees record quarterly slump; June gains suggest early COVID-19 efforts ‘paying off’
Space available on storefronts is shown on Queen Street in Toronto on Thursday, April 16, 2020. Real estate firm Colliers International says about one in five surveyed commercial tenants requested April rent relief as the COVID-19 shutdown hits business activity. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
report on business
Ottawa loosens EI requirements as part of CERB transition
canada
Post-COVID belt-tightening in the age of the adjustable waistband – and a bear market
Salini Perera
investment ideas
Investors raise cash as U.S. recovery wobbles; options strategies profit
A Wall Street sign is seen in Lower Manhattan in New York, January 20, 2016.
economics
Class of 2020 could lose $25,000 in potential earnings owing to COVID-19, study finds
Piggy bank with graduation cap and large amount of canadian one hundred dollar bills, education savings/financial concept.
report on business
Dezso Horvath, the architect of the Schulich School of Business, retires from deanship
Dezso Horvath, the outgoing dean of the Schulich School of Business at York University, poses for a portrait in the courtyard outside the school's new Robert and Cheryl McEwen Graduate Study and Research building, Monday, June 22, 2020. (Galit Rodan/The Globe and Mail)
opinion
Has the crisis proven that deficits really don’t matter, after all?
Konrad Yakabuski
inside the market
Bulls seem to smell danger as U.S. infection rates surge
The Charging Bull, sometimes referred to as the Wall Street Bull, a bronze sculpture in the Financial District of Manhattan with a facemask in New York May 19, 2020. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP) (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images)