June 20, 2011
Mark Carney - Latest
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June 15, 2011
Housing in Canada
In a speech to the Vancouver Board of Trade, Governor Mark Carney discusses the fundamentals of the Canadian residential real estate market, the international context, and the implications for monetary policy. -
May 16, 2011
Canada in a Multi-Polar World
Governor Mark Carney discusses the forces that are transforming the global economic landscape and their implications for the Canadian economy. -
March 26, 2011
The Paradigm Shifts: Global Imbalances, Policy, and Latin America
Globalization is the opportunity and the challenge of our age. It has the potential to lift billions out of poverty, vastly expand economic prospects, and develop a more diverse and resilient global economy. -
December 13, 2010
Living with Low for Long
Current turbulence in Europe is a reminder that the crisis is not over, but has merely entered a new phase. In a world awash with debt, repairing the balance sheets of banks, households and countries will take years. -
November 9, 2010
Looking Back, Moving Forward: Canada and Global Financial Reform
There is an old saying, “Knowledge is gained from experience, and experience is gained from mistakes.” In Canada, we made our mistakes early and often in the 1970s and 1980s. Our fiscal situation deteriorated sharply, inflation surged to double-digit levels, and a few small regional banks collapsed. -
September 30, 2010
Employment in a Modest Recovery
Insights from financial markets are somewhat fleeting at the moment. A broad range of asset prices from the Canadian dollar to S&P500 futures to European sovereign spreads are unusually correlated and volatile. -
September 14, 2010
Bundesbank Lecture 2010: The Economic Consequences of the Reforms
Keynes wrote prophetically of the economic consequences of the Treaty of Versailles. Could the same be said of current financial reforms? Are policy-makers taking for granted the essential role performed by finance in a vain pursuit of its risk-proofing? -
September 10, 2010
Restoring Faith in the International Monetary System
We are three years into the global financial crisis, and its dynamics still dominate the economic outlook. In particular, broad forces of bank, household, and sovereign deleveraging can be expected to add to the variability and temper the pace of global economic growth in the years ahead. -
June 18, 2010
Fortune Favours the Bold
From the end of 2008 to the middle of last year, Canada experienced a short, sharp recession. With the exception of government spending, all major components of aggregate demand declined, and industrial production dropped 15 per cent.