oil prices

The U.S. administration’s rhetoric on trade deficits is wrongheaded—and also ignores the huge benefits American exporters reap from processed imports

Econ-o-metric: Canadian arguments about balanced trade with the U.S. don’t matter to Trump. His NAFTA logic says deficits are for losers, full stop.

We can’t read too much into a single quarter, but the period of weak growth and declining incomes appears to be over

Maclean’s presents its third annual chartstravaganza to help make sense of the Canadian economy in the year ahead

Depending on who you listen to, oil prices are either about to crash again, or soar much higher. Here’s how all the arguments stack up.

And more importantly, how long will higher oil prices last?

What explains our insatiable appetite for stories about shortages?

The Alberta budget missed an opportunity to move the province past its historic reliance on volatile resource revenues

He predicted that oil would fall to $25—two years ago. Now, financial analyst Bob Hoye believes the next U.S. recession is already here

Ottawa is buoyed by a frantic energy. But the Bank of Canada governor warns that there’s no easy policy fix for the economy—it needs to work itself out

How the collapse of oil prices is impacting the Canadian economy, and what policy makers at the federal and provincial level should do to ease the pain

From employment and trade to energy and deficits, here are 50 charts picked by Canada’s brightest minds to help you understand the economy in the year ahead