Even the prospect of small deficits relative to GDP may generate substantial investor uncertainty in an environment where interest rates are on the way up.
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February 24, 2016
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January 4, 2016
3:00AM
January 27, 2015
12:00PM
The Bank of Canada apparently surprised the chattering classes and everybody else this week by dropping its benchmark interest rate.
December 13, 2014
10:00AM
When the federal government faced a growing debt problem in the late 1980s, then Opposition finance critic Paul Martin was initially skeptical about cutting spending.