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Tuesday, March 31, 2015

When you know "shit" about maintaining the economy

‘Worst Is Yet To Come': Economic Bad News Could Hit Just In Time For Election


Six words that appeared in several economists’ analyses over the past several days should give pause to Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s political strategists: “The worst is yet to come.”

That was the sentiment following StatsCan’s release of unemployment numbers for February, which showed the jobless rate ticking up to 6.8 per cent as the country lost a net total of 1,000 jobs.

It was actually better than the 5,000 lost jobs economists had been predicting, but the experts don’t see this as a sign that Canada will come out of the oil price collapse unscathed.

READ MORE: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/03/16/economy-canada-election_n_6877170.html?utm_hp_ref=tw

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