Not All Stock Prices Sinking: Buoyant Energy Shares Good for Construction
With the Federal Reserve putting on a grim face and expressing a firm resolve to...
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Foreign Trade Balance & Value of Greenback Moving Counter-Intuitively
A strange thing is happening with the U.S. foreign trade balance. It’s improving...
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Top 10 major upcoming educational and medical construction projects – Canada – September 2022
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Top 10 major upcoming Midwest and Northwest construction projects – U.S. – September 2022
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Top 10 largest construction project starts in Canada and Trend Graph – August 2022
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Making the Case for Not Overreaching with Interest Rate Increases
There are aspects to the current inflation problem that deserve an airing. Firs...
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Inflation that Persists Raises Risk of Deeper Longer Recession
On family trips, one of the most frequently voiced questions by my children was,...
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U.S. and Canadian Housing Starts Not Yet Humbled by Higher Interest Rates
In the U.S., the Federal Reserve has just raised its key policy setting interest...
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September’s Mid-Month Economic Nuggets Report – With an Emphasis on Manufacturing Shipments & New Orders
There will be a lot riding on the hoped-for success of the U.S. manufacturing se...
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A Mainly Overcast August Jobs Report for Canada
Statistics Canada’s August Labour Force Survey report was a ‘downer’. It set out...
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Canada’s Population May Hit 48 million by 2043
Fueled almost totally by sustained strong growth of net international migration,...
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Strength in Canadian City Labour Markets Broadly Distributed
The other day, I wrote about U.S. city labor markets. Today’s article presents t...
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In City Labor Markets, Texas is Hot, Florida is Hotter
It’s always helpful to know which U.S. cities have the hottest economies and one...
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Some Softening Apparent in U.S. August Jobs Creation
The total number-of-jobs count in the U.S. rose by +315,000 in August, according...
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A New Theme for the World Economy, NZE by Mid-Century
The great debate concerning whether the U.S. is already in recession or is about...
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Top 10 largest construction project starts in Canada and Trend Graph – July 2022
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Resource Sector Positives in Saskatchewan’s Outlook
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has handicapped and crippled the economies of bo...
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10 Mid-August Economic Nuggets
Let’s jump right into a discussion of some of the more interesting numbers to ha...
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Top 10 Major Upcoming Medical and Educational Construction Projects – U.S. – August 2022
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Top 10 Major Upcoming Industrial and Water Treatment Construction Projects – Canada – August 2022
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Some Grudging PPI Indications of Construction Material Cost Declines
Changes are happening quickly with respect to costs and prices in the economy....
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Is the News from July’s U.S. Jobs Report Too Good?
It’ll be hard for anyone to find much fault with July’s Employment Situation rep...
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Improving Office Outlook Faces Risk of Recession
With the national office vacancy rate at a 25-year high of 15.5%, Canada's offic...
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July a Surprisingly Good Month for Stock Markets
It seems everyone is talking about recession. Are we already in one? Should we p...
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The Facts on the Current Recessionary (?) Economy
U.S. ‘real’ (i.e., inflation adjusted) gross domestic product (GDP) contracted b...
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Top 10 largest construction project starts in Canada and Trend Graph – June 2022
The accompanying table records the 10 largest construction project starts in Can...
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2 of the Key Aspects of Housing Affordability – Mortgage Rates & Price
You’ll often hear that the residential real estate market will be the first amon...
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To Soften Hard Landing, Carry an Economic Cushion
Economy May Have Hard Landing Next Year In our last update on the Canadian econ...
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12 Mid-July Economic Nuggets
There’s no getting away from it, the opening sentence of a story on present econ...
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Top 10 major upcoming Alberta and British Columbia construction projects – Canada – July 2022
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Top 10 major upcoming entertainment facility and stadium-arena construction projects – U.S. – July 2022
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In June, Jobs Creation Kept Chugging Along in U.S., was Derailed in Canada
In the U.S. in June, according to the latest Employment Situation report from th...