February 2023

How did we get here?

Posted on Feb 17, 2023

The Bank of Canada as expected, hiked its key interest rate by another quarter-percentage point on January 25th, bringing it to 4.5 percent and continuing one of the fastest monetary policy tightening cycles in its history amid warning signs of a potential recession. In his commentary after the announcement, the Bank’s Governor Tiff Macklem said th...

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