Rebekah Young is the Director of Fiscal & Provincial Economics
at Scotiabank. With prior experience working with the IMF,
and as a former senior official at the Department of Finance in
Ottawa, she has addressed a range of topics, from development
economics, to the federal budget, to green finance issues.
Financial outlook remains choppy, though there are signs things are slowly improving. There hasn’t been a dull moment over the last three years, and a recent…
The U.S. could send interest rates soaring in the fight against inflation. Interest rates seem to be the “never-ending story” these days, but there are so…
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Interest rates are up, but consumers are still ahead In these times, a good description would be “Battle of the R-Words,” as in Recession versus Resilience.…
Inflation and Interest Rates maybe rising but consumer demand is still working in dealers’ favour. Just when we think things might finally be straightening out, something…
Conflict in Ukraine will further affect the industry’s fragile recovery. One of the drawbacks in being an economic forecaster is that you appear to have everything…
Current signals point to improvements in both the new and used vehicle markets, though this is likely to take some time. We’ve seen improvements in new-vehicle…
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