inflation

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    Jubilee 2025

    “More than 3.3 billion people live in countries that are spending more on debt payments than on health or education,” the petition begins, “standing in the way of sustainable development. We call on public, private and multilateral creditors, along with political leaders, to stop the debt crisis now.”  But this call for biblical justice –…

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    Build higher

    This October, Edmonton City Council passed a renewed Zoning Bylaw that would – amongst other things – permit the construction of three-story apartment buildings, townhouses/rowhouses and duplexes in any residential zone in the city. In so doing it ended decades of restrictive zoning that made it very difficult to build anything other than detached single-family…

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    The upside of inflation

    Inflation has been a documented economic phenomenon since Ancient Rome, but it has not been much of a factor in the global economy over the last decade. Now, however, with Covid-induced labor shortages and “supply chain snarls,” along with loose monetary policy from central banks looking to prop up national economies, inflation has stepped back…