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Let’s get right to it, because our topic today is elemental. We are going to dig deep – DEEP! – into the economy. More specifically, what I really want to do here is put Bank of Canada policy, and its antecedents, under the microscope.

What led them to last week’s rate increase? What’s going to be required to get us to 2% inflation? Is that even worth doing and what will be the ramifications? How hard a landing are we in for here, and how do mortgage and debt holders cope? And this emotional undercurrent to sum it all up, Herle Burly-ites: Why oh why does an economy with almost no unemployment … feel so goddamn lousy to so many people?

Here to help me sound smart on all of that are Dr. Lindsay Tedds and Randall Bartlett.

Dr. Tedds is currently Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Calgary. Her primary research is in tax policy, public economics and public policy design and implementation. She publishes far and wide and, in her own words, it’s important that her work be accessible to broader audiences in order to spark conversations about public policy beyond the academic community. So, it’s not at all shocking that her blog is called “DEAD FOR TAX REASONS”.

Randall Bartlett is Senior Director of Canadian Economics with Desjardins Group. Based in Toronto, he covers the Canadian and provincial economies & housing markets outside of Quebec, as well as government budgets & fiscal policy. Before Desjardins, Mr. Bartlett was the Director of Economic Research on OMERS’ Total Portfolio Management Team. And he’s a frequent publisher of what’s on his economic mind on both Twitter and LinkedIn, as well as various other media.

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