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The 10-Minute Take — 127 episodes

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The growing impact of AI in the U.S. economy

2

Will the oil price shock reignite broad inflation in Canada?

3

Are higher oil prices good or bad for Canada’s economy?

4

The fallout from the global oil shock on U.S. inflation

5

What’s next for U.S. tariffs after IEEPA strike down

6

U.S. inflation’s stubborn ceiling: Why the Fed’s 2% target remains elusive

7

Breaking the trade trap: Can Canada diversify fast enough?

8

Season 4 premiere: What 2026 holds for North America

9

Three common economic trends in Canada and the U.S. in 2025

10

What end of U.S. government shutdown means for data and Fed

11

Canadian Budget 2025: How should we be thinking about bigger deficits?

12

When data goes dark: The ripple effects of a U.S. government shutdown

13

International trade 101—the Canadian edition

14

Rate Cuts and Crossroads: What’s Next for the Fed and BoC?

15

Are U.S. tariffs close to achieving their goals?

16

Stagflation lite: What this means for the U.S. economy

17

BoC hits pause: Why rates aren’t budging amidst uncertainty

18

Is Canada's housing market regaining its footing?

19

Why is the U.S. unemployment rate low amid trade uncertainty?

20

How worried should we be about spiking oil prices?

21

How is large government debt in the U.S. shaping its economy?

22

How has the U.S.-China trade war de-escalation impacted our forecasts?

23

Trade war backlash: Where are Canadians vacationing now?

24

Forecasting in volatile times: Are tariffs a game changer for growth and inflation?

25

Are services immune to tariffs in the trade war?

26

Have the impact of tariffs shown up in the jobs market yet?

27

Is inflation making a comeback in Canada?

28

What we’ve learned about U.S.-Canada trade so far

29

How do Economists measure the impact of potential tariffs on Canada?

30

The Loonie slump: What’s behind it and where it’s headed

31

What economists are thinking about heading into 2025

32

What does a massive U.S. government deficit mean for Canada?

33

Why are so many Canadians struggling if we’re amassing record savings?

34

Will there be another jumbo rate cut from the BoC in December?

35

Canadians are still renewing mortgages at higher rates- will this hurt the economy?

36

Inflation is back at 2%—why doesn’t it feel like it?

37

What led the U.S. Fed to cut interest rates by 50 basis points?

38

What do new Chinese EV tariffs mean for Canadian businesses and consumers?

39

What have market volatility and recession fears meant for Central Banks?

40

Young Canadians are complaining about the economy. Do they have a point?

41

What is behind Canada’s rising unemployment if it’s not immigration?

42

What does a second Trump presidency mean for North American trade?

43

Why should we care about a productivity gap in Canada?

44

Travel season’s here! What can we look forward to?

45

How does population aging weigh on Canada’s economy, and how can immigration help?

46

What is a neutral rate of interest and why did the Bank of Canada move it higher?

47

Will the Bank of Canada be influenced by higher for longer in the U.S.?

48

How can we improve housing affordability for Canadians?

49

What can we expect from Canada’s new cap on temporary residents?

50

Why is it so hard for renters to save?

51

Can Generative AI solve Canada’s productivity challenge?

52

Will the international student cap impact Canadian rents?

53

What will drive growth in the back half of 2024?

54

Surprises in 2024, already?

55

When are interest rate cuts coming?

56

What surprised economists in 2023?

57

What's going on in the Canadian jobs market?

58

How has soaring immigration impacted economic growth in Canada?

59

How badly are Canadian businesses and consumers wounded by high interest rates?

60

How long can the U.S. economy’s outperformance last?

61

Why are so many workers on strike these days?

62

How indebted are Canadians and is it a problem?

63

When China sneezes, do we all catch a cold?

64

Are the Bank of Canada's interest rate hikes working?

65

Will the pandemic pet economy boom last?

66

Why aren’t rising rates cooling Canadian spending?

67

Will my grocery bills ever get lower?

68

Interest rates are rising again?

69

What will this year's summer travel season look like?

70

What keeps economists up at night?

71

Will higher wages arising from labour disputes fire up inflation?

72

If Canadian home prices are falling, why are rents going through the roof?

73

How has market turmoil hit the Canadian economy?

74

Will Budget 2023 derail the Bank of Canada's inflation-fighting campaign?

75

What's up with the long lines at my local coffee shop?

76

Why are groceries so expensive if inflation is moderating?

77

The Ten-Minute Take (Trailer)

78

Why markets are edging higher in spite of cautious corporates

79

U.S. oil demand sputters as lockdowns tighten

80

Canada's fiscal snapshot – massive deficit, record federal debt

81

Can U.S. markets stay up while summer shutdowns expand?

82

How streaming platforms are winning through crisis

83

How the crisis became prime time for Amazon

84

A cloudy outlook for young job seekers

85

Canada’s provinces are turning the corner on their road to recovery

86

Work 2.0: How tech is catalyzing the “remote first" workplace

87

A path to 5G for Canadian telcos

88

Corporate America's moment of truth on racism

89

How renewed COVID fears rattled stock markets​

90

The geopolitics of OPEC+ oil cuts

91

Can pro sports stage an epic comeback?

92

To recover, Canadian tourism needs more Canadians

93

A U-turn for the auto sector?​

94

How the lockdown may hamper Canada's immigrant-fueled growth

95

How COVID is heralding a new era in healthcare

96

How Maslow's Hierarchy can explain pandemic spending

97

What's ahead for the loonie​

98

Why gold is glittering while markets churn

99

Quebec's long haul recovery

100

Mixed economic outlooks across Atlantic Canada

101

Cautious re-opening sets the stage for Ontario's recovery

102

Manitoba, Saskatchewan to see modest recoveries

103

Alberta's slow and protracted recovery

104

Positive signs for British Columbia's recovery

105

Can business stimulus hasten the "swoosh" recovery?

106

What a market recovery can look like

107

China's economic recovery still a long way off, despite official reports​

108

What we can learn from Australia’s approach to the crisis

109

May Day for commercial retail real estate

110

How oil producers can help resolve their own crisis​

111

Why the world’s biggest banks are relatively stable in this crisis – so far

112

Why ESG is outperforming the market

113

What the collapse of crude prices means for the oil market

114

How COVID-19 is affecting investment strategies

115

Quiet resilience in Canada's housing markets

116

How Big Tech is using a downturn to its advantage

117

A downturn like no other

118

How Donald Trump's Fed became the world's central bank

119

A COVID cure? Watch for wishful thinking

120

Health crisis, yes; debt crisis, no

121

The Eurozone’s next crisis

122

"Market bottoms take time to form"

123

Canada’s two-fisted punch

124

King dollar steps back

125

Can Trump bring peace to the oil war?

126

This is the Backfill

127

Have Markets Found a Bottom?