Economy

We have analyzed 300+ articles, whitepapers, podcasts and interviews to create a big picture look at what experts predict could unfold in 2022.

The Gallup Poll asks Americans about their attitudes toward capitalism and socialism on a semi-regular basis and below are the results from a poll carried out in October 2021

Most of what passes for explanations of inflation and its causes are convoluted and confusing. It is like looking into a pond of muddy water and trying to ascertain what lurks blow the surface. Below are some facts about inflation that should help clarify things:

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has projected Canada’s real gross domestic product (GDP) per capita growth falling to last place to, in effect, become the next Greece.

Kondratiev concluded that each long wave was driven by technological advances. He identified four distinct phases.

There is a way to protect yourself against inflation and save your hard-earned money. Here are the most important things you should know about protection against inflation.

There are many different types of economies - communism, socialism, capitalism and democratic socialism. We tend to use the terms concretely, which necessarily introduces inaccuracies and, as such, they serve as excuses not to think and to hold economic beliefs that discourage explorations of the mismatch between theory and practice. Do you know exactly how they differ? Read on.

The U.S. Federal Reserve considers both Canada and the U.S. to be in real estate bubbles but they’re even close to the same issue. Here's why.

For the first time since 2007 the Fed's Exuberance Index is warning that U.S. real estate prices are in a bubble. Did the Fed even notice? 

China has taken an unprecedented step towards cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology and launched the world’s first government-backed cryptocurrency on November 2nd, 2021, and, if the digital yuan succeeds, and weakens the USD too much, the dollar’s status as global reserve currency could also be at stake.