Economy

Today, the IMF warned that the world is on the cusp a recession even more severe than the contraction caused by the financial crisis of 2007-2009. Canadians are confronting an economic crisis [...]

As I explained this week in a discussion with Vanmala Subramaniam of the Financial Post, former Bank of Canada Governor David Dodge once described Canada as the “Wild West” of [...]

In 2014, the Canadian polling firm EKOS asked respondents whether they agreed with the following proposition: If the current patterns of stagnation among all except those at the very top [...]

For The Real News, I spoke this week to Leo Roberts, co-author of a new report which concludes that, even as G20 governments pay lip service to the climate crisis, they are doling out gigantic [...]

For The Real News Network, I speak to Stanford University Professor Noah Diffenbaugh about a new study showing that global warming is increasing inequality. My discussion with Professor [...]

For The Real News Network, I recently spoke in Puerto Rico with economist Dr. José Caraballo-Cueto about the economic prospects for an independent Puerto Rico. Would Puerto Rico be better off if [...]

This week, the Greek government of Alexis Tsipras announced with great fanfare that Greece had exited its bailout and that it had regained, finally, the freedom to pursue its own economic and [...]

On The Real News, I discuss with Sharmini Peries Canada’s excessive dependence on trade with the United States and the pressing need for Canada to diversify its trading relationships. [...]

For The Real News, I speak to Anthony Hobley, the CEO of Carbon Tracker, about Exxon’s dubious climate risk disclosure and the transformation in the financial industry’s attitude [...]

For The Real News, I speak with with Giorgos Gogos, general Secretary of the Dockworkers Union at the Port of Piraeus in Greece. As Giorgos explains, the Troika of Greece’s creditors forced [...]