Jason Kirby

Facebook’s claim that it added $227 billion to the global economy last year is so full of silly assumptions as to be completely useless

As Stephen Harper says, the oil industry will survive. That’s not saying much

The giddy spirit around investing in the madcap growth of the BRIC countries—Brazil, Russia, India and China—is crumbling

There’s a glut of homes on the market in Fort McMurray, which is bad news as oil patch layoffs start to hit

From left to right, where economists in Canada fall on the ideological spectrum based on who follows them on Twitter

The "virtuous circles" of rising oil prices, higher incomes and booming house prices, are about to turn "vicious"

Jason Kirby on what it means now that Ontario is Canada’s fastest-growing economy

A look at the entrenched thinking about oil prices that was so prevalent just a year ago

There’s definitely a problem here, but it isn’t some hypothetical bogeyman of nefarious types out to misrepresent the government

Three of Canada’s top economists share their thoughts on where oil prices, the jobless rate and house prices will be at the end of 2015