The GDP Payoff of Additional Oil Pipeline Capacity
A report with Studio.Energy: Expanding Canada’s oil pipeline capacity could add $30B+ to annual real GDP and create 110,000+ jobs.
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Chart of the Week
Chart of the Week: Bad vibes
I’m of the view that you can explain many feelings in a chart. So here it is—my bad vibes chart.
It shows what would have happened if consumer prices rose 2%/year since early 2021. It then shows what actually happened.
The area between the lines is what I call bad vibes (my technical term). The feeling that life is expensive, as confirmed by the latest Abacus survey data that puts the cost of living as the top issue among Canadians. You can replicate this chart for any province, including Alberta, and it more or less looks the same.
For the Bank of Canada, they won’t be helping us get better vibes through rate cuts. Let’s hope that Canadian efforts to build more and faster do the trick—by gearing up the economy and creating jobs.
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