Paulitical Economy™

Post 345: The Shared Misery of Canada’s Housing Affordability Crisis and Profitability Leads to Dominance

Paul Musson
  • I’m reposting my first and so far only Pollitical Economy (2023) which asked you for your favourite Christmas movie.
    • Giving you some Christmas viewing ideas.
  • Another look at Canada’s housing affordability crisis.
    • It’s more widespread than people think.
      • And how it’s predictably fueling anti-immigration attitudes.
  • Netflix is shooting the lights out.
    • And now they’re buying Warner Brothers.
      • And a look back at Warner Brothers.
  • After eight straight quarters of negative sales growth Deere Corporations flips things into positive territory.
    • Turned positive in the same quarter as Caterpillar.
  • In Financial Ructions:
    • Canada’s GDP grew strongly in the 3Q, but it was pretty much all down to rising exports.
      • And more quirky housing price stuff that gets included in GDP but shouldn’t.
  • In our book review of Where Keynes Went Wrong by Hunter Lewis
    • We see how ever since Keynes’s The General Theory back in 1936, governments will do whatever they can to stop a recession from happening.
      • What this does is prevent the healing with the misallocated capital being papered over with even more misallocated capital.
        • Resulting in:
          • Slower productivity growth
          • Exploding government debt
          • Widening wealth disparity