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The Bank of Canada announced a 0.5 per cent interest rate increase on April 13, 2022, in a move to quell Canada’s high inflation. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Why we can’t just ‘stop printing money’ to get inflation down

Jacqueline Best, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

While central banks did help mitigate a COVID-induced recession, they don’t have the power to solve our inflation problem.
A woman walks past the Bank of Canada building in Ottawa in September 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

The Bank of Canada must seize the pandemic moment and do more for Canadians

Peter Dietsch, Université de Montréal and Jacqueline Best, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

Unconventional policies can be used to alleviate — instead of exacerbate — inequality, something Canadians are clamouring for. The Bank of Canada needs to rediscover its former innovation zeal.
The 2008 financial meltdown caused millions of Americans to lose their homes, and the austerity measures that followed only widened income inequality and helped fuel the rise of right-wing populism. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

How the 2008 financial crisis helped fuel today’s right‑wing populism

Jacqueline Best, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

Right-wing populists have exploited key weaknesses in liberal democratic society that were exacerbated by the failure of political leaders to respond effectively to the 2008 financial crisis.

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