This is one curve we shouldn’t have flattened

Financial Post, February 9, 2022

I was fooling around with some GDP data the other day, as we economists are wont to do, and when I put it on a chart and drew a couple of trend lines, I was shocked by how setbacks we’ve suffered since 2000 seem to have become permanent scars on our well-being. In the 1960s and ’70s, economists the world round talked about “the British disease.” What does the Canadian disease look like? Check out the chart. (Read Full Article)