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Accounting for COVID-19 economics: Same as the Great Recession?
Part two of our series on the COVID-19 pandemic and economic models
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It could take two years for the economy to recover from the coronavirus pandemic
Past-pandemic studies suggest current economic outlook, says accounting figure Steven Salterio
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CRA Audit Activity: The Calm Before The Storm?
Trump's tax cuts and deficit spending will increase CRA's vigorous audit activities
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Oil crash explained: How are negative oil prices even possible?
On Monday, oil futures’ contracts ended the day at -US$37
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Is socialism coming back under Covid-19?
Government intervention is unprecedented in the current crisis
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Restarting the coronavirus economy: 4 possible steps
The four phases of a potential post-pandemic Canadian economy
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How to avoid a coronavirus debt crisis?
Issue a new type of government bonds linked to GDP, says Costas Milas
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Coronavirus disruption: A chance for businesses to adapt and renew
COVID-19 will create many new opportunities for businesses, says Felix Arndt
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Coronavirus: Can Canada fiscally handle ‘black swan’ events?
Canada’s provincial debt levels are troubling, says Jerome Gessaroli
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Corporate debt is in serious trouble — here’s what it means if the market collapses
Companies are entering a period of uncertainty at high levels of corporate debt, says Jefferson Frank
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Put your trust in taxes during the coronavirus pandemic recovery
Governments amend taxes for good times and bad, says Andrew Bauer
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Pandemic bonds: The financial cure we need for COVID-19?
Some healthy skepticism is warranted when considering the social value of catastrophe bonds
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Are Canadians ready to ditch GDP as a key prosperity indicator?
Surveys show support for new indicators of progress, prosperity and protection
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Inheritance tax, wealth tax and more capital gains tax: The future of Canadian taxation?
Canadian tax policy has become a hotbed of new ideas, writes Margaret O'Sullivan
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Coronavirus: A simple way to keep workers — and the economy — from getting sick
Governments have an economic tool to use against COVID-19: Unemployment Insurance
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Stocks are plummeting — could coronavirus cause a recession?
Economies with strong ties to China could be in for a rocky road ahead
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Three financial firms could change the direction of the climate crisis
And few people have any idea, say three researchers of popular passive investment funds known as ETFs
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Ottawa should forget about limiting interest expense deductibility
Allan Lanthier on the OECD's proposal to limit excessive debt leveraging
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Carbon pricing may be overrated, if history is any indication
History proves radical technological change can be achieved by state intervention
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€55 billion cum-ex trading scandal has scary parallels with Enron
The robbery of the century in Germany resembles the Enron accounting case
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Coronavirus: The blow to the Chinese economy could be felt for years
Coronavirus is disrupting global supply chains and the Chinese manufacturing sector, says Chusu He.
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Women CEOs negotiate better severance than men — for all the wrong reasons
Female CEOs know they’re vulnerable and seek better severance, says Professor Pierre Chaigneau
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Canada-U.K. free trade: A post-Brexit opportunity
CETA provides a model for a U.K.-EU deal, it can also be the template for a Canada-U.K. deal, says economics professor Eugene Beaulieu
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France-US skirmish over Amazon digital tax
Shows why the century-old international tax system is broken, says Professor Ruth Mason
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Why money laundering thrives on Canada’s West Coast
Illicit capital moves through the underground Vancouver model, says Robert Diab