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‘House prices have to drop’: Amanda Lang on affordability, positive inflation numbers, and a new study on health-care spending

Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem speaks during a fireside chat Tuesday, February 6, 2024. Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press.

Award-winning journalist and best-selling author Amanda Lang and The Hub‘s Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss Canada’s slowing inflation rate in January and its possible economic and political consequences as well as a new study out of the University of British Columbia on Canadian health-care spending and the intergenerational issues that it raises.

You can listen to this episode of Hub Dialogues on AcastAmazonAppleGoogle, and Spotify. 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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