OTTAWA – It’s time to remove the rose-coloured glasses around the reliability of “consensus” forecasts used in the federal budget, says a new report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA)
The report, by economist David Macdonald, highlights the underlying uncertainty of GDP “consensus” growth forecasts and extends the concerns recently expressed by the...
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