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Arthur Donner

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Arthur Donner is a Toronto-based economic consultant with a lively interest and involvement in economic policy issues. Arthur has the ability to make complicated economic issues understandable to widely different audiences. Consequently, his career has moved between universities, governments and ...more
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Political Conflicts Are At A Record High Since The Trump Presidency
Sunday, September 24, 2017 4:05 PM EDT
Even though the U.S. political environment is still quite volatile, at least the chance of an imminent government shutdown has receded.
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Goldilocks Narrative, The U.S Economy And Some Policy Conundrums
Saturday, September 23, 2017 4:06 PM EDT
A Goldilocks economy is described as not too hot to cause inflation nor too cold to fall into recession and generally characterized as having low unemployment, increasing asset prices, low interest rates, steady economic growth and low inflation.
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The World Economy Is Growing At Its Fastest Pace In Years
Friday, September 22, 2017 1:09 PM EDT
After a particularly dismal performance in 2016, the advanced economies are starting to bounce back this year.
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Despite Concerns About Brexit, Terrorism And Immigration, Euro Zone’s Economy Has Visibly Improved
Monday, August 28, 2017 1:31 PM EDT
Output in the euro zone expanded 0.6% in the second quarter of 2017, one of the fastest quarterly growth rates since 2009. Despite clear signs of improving economic growth, the ECB recently reduced its inflation projections for the euro zone.
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The Greek Economy Is Finally Growing Again, But Not Very Quickly
Sunday, August 27, 2017 1:38 PM EDT
For a number of years Greece has been the poster child of everything that can go wrong for a small open country which is also a member of the European Union.
In this article: GREK
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The U.S Private Sector Quit Rate Has Soared, But It Hasn’t Ignited Wage Inflation
Friday, August 25, 2017 5:42 AM EDT
The latest data that tracks job turnover shows that the voluntary quit rate has been rising steadily as the job market continues to improve.
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Canada Will Likely Lead The G7 Countries Growth This Year, But Post Slower Growth In 2018
Thursday, August 24, 2017 8:06 AM EDT
The Bank of Canada believes that Canada’s economy will be roughly at full capacity in 2018, which according to their analysis, suggests some inflation risk.
In this article: FXC
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America’s Job Market Keeps Improving, Though Not In Terms Of Earnings
Wednesday, August 23, 2017 2:45 PM EDT
The U.S. economy has been improving on many fronts since the Great Recession ended eight years ago.
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The Significant Increase In U.S. Income Inequality Since 1980 Helps Explain Trump’s Electoral Success
Tuesday, August 22, 2017 12:36 PM EDT
An obvious conclusion from the sharp worsening in income inequality in the U.S. is that there is a strong correlation between the two major problems currently plaguing the country - extreme political polarization and increasing income inequality.
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Are Refugees A Burden To U.S. Taxpayers? Not According To A NBER Study!
Sunday, August 20, 2017 4:00 PM EDT
Are refugees a burden on the taxpayer? New evidence suggests that, with a long enough perspective, the answer is no.
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The Fiscal Breakeven Oil Price For OPEC Countries Has Been Coming Down
Saturday, August 19, 2017 6:06 PM EDT
Many of the oil producing countries need much higher oil prices if they want to balance their fiscal budgets.
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The Euro Area Economy Continues On A Slow Growth Path
Monday, July 24, 2017 7:00 AM EDT
While the Eura Area economies have been growing positively for a few years now, in many obvious ways the economic recovery remains rather unsatisfactory.
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Japan’s Fully Employed Economy Is Growing Slowly, But So Is Its Labour Force
Saturday, July 22, 2017 12:00 PM EDT
Government data published Tuesday revealed that the country's labor shortage has reached its most extreme level in more than 40 years.
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The Bank Of Canada’s "Unsurprising" July Interest Rate Hike
Friday, July 21, 2017 3:29 PM EDT
The Bank of Canada has not been hawkish on interest rates. The Bank had held its policy rate at 0.5% over the past two years.
In this article: EWC
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Why Is Inflation So Low, Virtually Everywhere
Friday, July 21, 2017 8:05 AM EDT
With interest rates so low and effectively close to zero in the euro area and Japan, monetary policy is simply unable to stimulate the chronically deficient demand side of their economies.
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Around The World Consumers Are Becoming More Optimistic
Thursday, July 20, 2017 6:08 AM EDT
The aggregate confidence indexes for a broad number of OECD and non-OECD countries are roughly back to former, pre-recession highs. In March, the U.S. consumer confidence index rose to its highest level in 16 years.
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