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‘They’re still not calling for a big, bad recession’: Amanda Lang on the consequences of the Bank of Canada’s latest rate hike

Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem and Senior Deputy Governor Carolyn Rogers in Ottawa on July 12, 2023. Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press.

This is the seventh episode of The Hub’s bi-weekly series featuring Sean Speer in conversation with award-winning journalist and best-selling author Amanda Lang. The two discuss the Bank of Canada’s latest hike to its benchmark interest rate including some of the factors behind persistently high inflation and the political economy consequences of a higher interest rate environment.

You can listen to this episode of Hub Dialogues on AcastAmazonAppleGoogleSpotify, and YouTube. The episodes are generously supported by The Ira Gluskin And Maxine Granovsky Gluskin Charitable Foundation and The Linda Frum & Howard Sokolowski Charitable Foundation.

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