Brian speaks with Charles St-Arnaud. Charles joined Alberta Central in July 2019. He has more than 17 years of experience as an economist in the public and the private sectors, both in Canada and internationally (New York, London, Hong Kong). Charles also provides regular comments to various print and television media, including The Globe and Mail, the Financial Post, BNN, Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and Reuters. We talk about the federal budget, the economy in Canada, house prices, interest rates, personal, business and government debt and the Alberta oil economy.