First it was the EU and the US, now it looks like Canada could be next to weigh tariffs on Chinese made electric vehicles. Justin Trudeau's government is considering new tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles to align with US and EU actions, according to a new report this week by Bloomberg. https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/canada-set-follow-us-eu-lead-hiking-tariffs-chinese-made-evs

BoC officials earned $20 million in bonuses while hiking interest rates #NoMoreLiberalsAndNDP https://tnc.news/2023/07/13/bank-of-canada-interest-rates1

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French labor unions have been holding several days of mass strikes and protests against raising the retirement age, in a test of the momentum driving defiance to Emmanuel Macron’s signature economic reform... which is hardly surprising: France is one of the biggest "western" bastions of socialism. https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/france-hit-strikes-protests-amid-public-outrage-hiking-retirement-age-64

Unfortunately, we have reached a point where there is no turning back. We have already destroyed the reserve currency of the planet. We have already created rampant inflation. The Federal Reserve has been feverishly hiking interest rates, but that is dramatically raising debt service costs at every level of our society, and it is also causing economic activity to slow down all around us. Companies all over America are now laying off workers, and that even includes Google… If there is one company in America that should not be laying off workers, it is Google. Of course just about every large tech company is laying off workers these days. Microsoft is laying off workers. Amazon is laying off workers. Facebook is laying off workers. Twitter is laying off workers. So many people are going to lose their jobs in the months ahead. https://www.activistpost.com/2023/01/the-united-states-is-insolvent.html

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Amid a split economist panel, with roughly half expecting a 25bps rate hike from the BOC and the other half looking for 50bps, moments ago the Bank of Canada announced a 50bps hike, its sixth consecutive outsized increase to interest rates, but in a dovish pivot suggested that rates may not need to rise further and as Bloomberg notes, the statement-only decision opens to the door to a pause in the rate hiking cycle. https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/another-pivot-bank-canada-hikes-50bps-it-signals-potential-pause-inflation-peaking