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[ArmyRick]

If you want to invite him here, be my guest.

I would love to ask him if we imported less gold than we did it would mean we are not in recession.

That all said, if you think that simply posting a video means it's above reproach you're sadly mistaken. Anyone can post a video.

Seriously, be better.

Be better? Dude, over the years, you are usually more incorrect than correct.

I will admit, I am no economist. But Eric Kam makes a living teaching a few thousand students every year and I assume he knows a hell of a lot more than you. Your little quibbles there are your response to him? Seriously you do better.
You jump on here constantly and fire off knee jerk responses all the time and skip over key points or factors, seriously you do better.

I posted his video in response to people trying to pretend there is no recession or the economy is "just fine", its getting a little tiring hearing year after year how everything is fine and yet year after year, more and more explanations for why things are going terribly wrong.

We as a nation keep voting the same party in over and over, expect results or failures to keep repeating themselves except they are getting worse and worse.

 

[PPCLI Guy]

Go head to head with Prof Eric Kam in a public debate on economics in our nation,. I fucking dare you to do it. No? He would chew you up and spit you out. And you know it.

This is turning into a hissing slap fight - but with proxies! Or are they Champions?

 

[Altair]

Be better? Dude, over the years, you are usually more incorrect than correct.

I will admit, I am no economist. But Eric Kam makes a living teaching a few thousand students every year and I assume he knows a hell of a lot more than you. Your little quibbles there are your response to him? Seriously you do better.
You jump on here constantly and fire off knee jerk responses all the time and skip over key points or factors, seriously you do better.

I posted his video in response to people trying to pretend there is no recession or the economy is "just fine", its getting a little tiring hearing year after year how everything is fine and yet year after year, more and more explanations for why things are going terribly wrong.

We as a nation keep voting the same party in over and over, expect results or failures to keep repeating themselves except they are getting worse and worse.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-responds-to-recessison-news-9.7220490

In an analysis posted on Monday, Scotiabank chief economist Derek Holt also pushed back against the label.

Beyond the small size of the decline, he noted that harsh winter weather and tariff-induced trade swings were spurring volatility in the recent economic data.

He also wrote that imports of gold were also sharply higher in the first quarter, dragging GDP lower.

"It would be irresponsible to make a recession call on the basis of surging gold imports that are idiosyncratic in nature versus reflective of underlying activity in the economy," he said.

Holt also pointed to ongoing consumer strength and early signs of an economic rebound in the second quarter.

"Overall, while I have no problem calling recession if there is merit to doing so, I find it would be irresponsible to do so in this case, and dwelling on a recession call risks causing one," he said.

Oh my GOD, it Derek Holt. He's a chief economist at scotiabank!

I guess the argument is SETTLED!!!

Embarrasing.

 

[ArmyRick]

This is turning into a hissing slap fight - but with proxies! Or are they Champions?

Actually as someone who fought many. many grappling tournaments and a few amateur MMA fights, I prefer real punch outs. But that gets viewed as threatening, so keyboard fights it is.

For my amateur MMA bouts? the fact that I my name was never on any pro cards tells you how grand I did. I did last a few minutes throwing down with Carlos Newton (former MMA welter champion) before he damn near choked me out.

 

[PPCLI Guy]

Actually as someone who fought many. many grappling tournaments and a few amateur MMA fights, I prefer real punch outs. But that gets viewed as threatening, so keyboard fights it is.

For my amateur MMA bouts? the fact that I my name was never on any pro cards tells you how grand I did. I did last a few minutes throwing down with Carlos Newton (former MMA welter champion) before he damn near choked me out.

Cool!

 

[ArmyRick]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-responds-to-recessison-news-9.7220490

Oh my GOD, it Derek Holt. He a chief economist at scotiabank!

I guess the argument is SETTLED!!!

Embarrasing.

Tell you what, skippy. Yeah I said that. If the economy takes a huge up swing by Christmas, and I mean a real jump upwards, I will concede you were right and I was wrong on this.

 

[ArmyRick]

Cool!

Actually if you wanted to see cool as in hilarious, I had a 2 minute sparring match with a south paw fighter on my CQCI course, and south paws have always been a weakness of mine. As usual, the 50% power went out the window and we ended up going full throttle, and he was the only guy who punched the ever living shit out of me, knocking me senseless. RSM Surridge was watching the bout and tried to talk me after the bout, the pure gibberish I muttered as I was trying to get my vision to stop moving was out of this world.

 

[Altair]

Tell you what, skippy. Yeah I said that. If the economy takes a huge up swing by Christmas, and I mean a real jump upwards, I will concede you were right and I was wrong on this.

Where the economy is now has nothing to do about where the economy is going to be in December, little buddy.

I've said repeatedly the economy is pretty stagnant and I've said repeatedly I think its due to immigration being down and the population shrinking.

So why on gods green earth would I predict an upswing?

Just....wow.

 

[ArmyRick]

Where the economy is now has nothing to do about where the economy is going to be in December,

It doesn't? I think many will disagree

little buddy.

You would never talk like that to my face, but feel free to hide behind an anonymous screen name

repeatedly the economy is pretty stagnant

Then what the hell are you yammering for? Two periods of contractions is not a good thing. Your admitting the economy is at least stagnant, some would say its in the dumps.

repeatedly I think its due to immigration being down and the population shrinking.

I won't entirely disagree with you. That being said, the RIGHT population growth is needed to improve the GDP growth (or contribute to it) such as more people entering the workforce and more successful entrepeneurs and not draining on public resources negatively

So why on gods green earth would I predict

Come on, Nostradamus, where is that "future insight" you had in January?

 

[Altair]

It doesn't? I think many will disagree

Unless there are underlying trends being shown to us in the data that will bear weight in December, I don't put much stock in it.

What, are we going to continue to import a bunch of gold in december because we did now?

You would never talk like that to my face, but feel free to hide behind an anonymous screen name

If you called me skippy to my face I would most definately respond in kind internet tough guy.

Then what the hell are you yammering for? Two periods of contractions is not a good thing. Your admitting the economy is at least stagnant, some would say its in the dumps.

It's not that we had two periods of contraction, its why and how we had two periods of contraction. If we had entire sectors going under, or massive job losses, or exports collapsed, ya, signs of trouble. If we imported more gold and that counts against the GDP of the country, should we be worried?

Or put another way, my wife buys a bunch of plants to do her garden. We have less money this month than last month because of it. Do I freak out? No. If my mortgage and gas costs more than my income, do I freak out? Yes.

People pointing saying "Recession, recession, everything is terrible!" are missing the point that if we didn't import so much gold and the population didnt shrink our GDP would have grown by a tiny amount, but then technically we would not be in recession. Would we be any better off as a whole? No.

It's bloody lazy.

I won't entirely disagree with you. That being said, the RIGHT population growth is needed to improve the GDP growth (or contribute to it) such as more people entering the workforce and more successful entrepeneurs and not draining on public resources negatively

Yet we are in negative growth right now, actively shrinking. The trade off is slower and weaker economic growth. Yet, again, people will point to that same slower or weaker economic growth and try to sound the alarm bells. What, would we prefer the Trudeau way of opening the floodgates but we wouldn't be in recession?

People need to make up their minds.

Come on, Nostradamus, where is that "future insight" you had in January?

I wasted it on my post about deeds not words.

 

[ArmyRick]

So after all that long winded explanations, and seeing your point of view, or rather somewhere in the middle, why did you challenge Brian's video with the prof?

I really think your underplaying the dangers of a recession at a time when inflation is high and thanks to the previous PM (lets face it, its not a new government) has caused a lot of inflation. Add to that housing prices are sky high, so it drives up rent and mortgages sky high, add to that highly inflated food prices and we are now seeing a population on the edge of disaster. Under that context, a recession is a big deal. It can push many more people into poverty.

 

[Altair]

So after all that long winded explanations, and seeing your point of view, or rather somewhere in the middle, why did you challenge Brian's video with the prof?

Because this 'recession' happened because of a bunch of gold imports. Is Canada in economic trouble because of a bunch of gold imports? Are businesses about to go under because of a bunch of gold imports? Are people lining up to go to food banks because of a bunch of gold imports?

Yes Canada is in recession. But it's in recession by such a sliver that even 0.2 percent of a 3.1 trillion dollar economy acting differently and we are not.

So everyone saying, oh god, recession like it's 2008/2009 is being disingenous. They are being lazy. Would people be saying this if the economy grew by 0.1 percent? No. Because Canada would technically not be in recession. You know how small 0.2 percent is? 6.2 billion. 6.2 billion of 3.1 trillion of our economy acts differently and all these experts shut the hell up.

Lazy.

I really think your underplaying the dangers of a recession at a time when inflation is high and thanks to the previous PM (lets face it, its not a new government) has caused a lot of inflation. Add to that housing prices are sky high, so it drives up rent and mortgages sky high, add to that highly inflated food prices and we are now seeing a population on the edge of disaster. Under that context, a recession is a big deal. It can push many more people into poverty.

Read above.

 

[YZT580]

Where the economy is now has nothing to do about where the economy is going to be in December, little buddy.

I've said repeatedly the economy is pretty stagnant and I've said repeatedly I think its due to immigration being down and the population shrinking.

So why on gods green earth would I predict an upswing?

Just....wow.

and I say that it is because our productivity per capita is the shits compared to the U.S., Korea, Japan, etc. Our unions have driven our industry to accept 50% from their employees. We avoid risk and we start looking for why not excuses instead of just going for it. Lots of other stuff too but blaming population/immigration is a strawman argument.

 

[Altair]

and I say that it is because our productivity per capita is the shits compared to the U.S., Korea, Japan, etc. Our unions have driven our industry to accept 50% from their employees. We avoid risk and we start looking for why not excuses instead of just going for it. Lots of other stuff too but blaming population/immigration is a strawman argument.

Productivity: Canada a laggard among G7 countries | Montreal Economic Institute

The Canadian economy lags behind in terms of productivity due to a lack of investment, concludes a study published this morning by the Montreal Economic Institute.

www.iedm.org

“Canada’s productivity gap is worrisome and has a direct impact on our standard of living,” explains Renaud Brossard, senior director of communications at the MEI and one of the authors of the study. “The less value that is created by an hour of work, the less that hour can be remunerated.”

At purchasing power parity, each hour worked in Canada in 2022 produced a value of US$53.30 (constant 2015 dollars). That puts Canada in next-to-last place among G7 countries, ahead of Japan.

That was amusing.

https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/oecd-economic-surveys-canada-2025_28f9e02c-en/full-report/raising-business-sector-productivity_443bcd88.html

Also funny.

 

[PPCLI Guy]

Actually if you wanted to see cool as in hilarious, I had a 2 minute sparring match with a south paw fighter on my CQCI course, and south paws have always been a weakness of mine. As usual, the 50% power went out the window and we ended up going full throttle, and he was the only guy who punched the ever living shit out of me, knocking me senseless. RSM Surridge was watching the bout and tried to talk me after the bout, the pure gibberish I muttered as I was trying to get my vision to stop moving was out of this world.

John May?

 

[ArmyRick]

John May?

The guy who knocked the piss out of me? No, his name was Slomenski or something like that. Armoured guy.