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Feb 2025
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Why Tariffs Could Crush Canada’s Economy...

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Ed and Scott open the show by discussing Apple’s new investment in “American innovation,” Howard Lutnik’s decision to put his sons in charge of Cantor Fitzgerald, and a new Moody’s Analytics report on U.S. consumer spending. Then Mike Moffatt, Founding Director of the University of Ottawa's "Missing Middle Initiative” and former economic adviser to Liberal L ... Show More
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