June 30, 2024 |聽The digital brigade, powered by e-transfers, PayPal and Apple Pay, has gained unprecedented momentum. This is leading towards a cashless society, as聽Canadians tend to embrace...
Chris Ragan's suggestion for federal finance minister Chrystia Freeland is simple: Budget 2023 should contain a full chapter devoted to some of the fiscal challenges in our future, and why these...
September 12, 2022 | On Government Analytics' The Monthly podcast with host Peter Kent, director Chris Ragan spoke about rebuilding the Canadian economy in the post-Covid era.聽At the recent Jackson...
September 2, 2022 | In response to the possibility of the Bank of Canada raising interest rates next week, Director Christopher Ragan said the central bank is best-suited to take on the...
May 13, 2022 | In a recent debate, Conservative Party leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre pledged that鈥攊f he were to become prime minister鈥攈e would fire the governor of the Bank of Canada. Max...
January 19, 2022 |聽Director Chris Ragan discusses supply chain disruptions and Canada's inflation rate rising to a 30-year high on CBC News. "There's a lot of pent-up demand," Chris notes,...
December 24, 2021 | After Director Christopher Ragan published an essay聽in the聽Hub that perhaps Freeland and Macklem actually disagree about how the central bank should conduct policy聽rather than...