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Randy Thanthong-Knight

@rtkwrites

Canada economics & government reporter @business | also cover immigration | @columbiajourn and @FulbrightPrgrm alum | [email protected]

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Households go backwards in 13 developed economies as record immigration runs into a housing crisis. Here’s a closer look at declining GDP per capita in Canada, Australia and the UK bloomberg.com/news/features/…

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Global Housing Shortages Are Crushing Immigration-Fueled Growth

Households go backwards in 13 developed economies as record immigration runs into a housing crisis.


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Mexico’s Fátima Bosch just won Miss Universe after a scandalous clash with one of the pageant’s organizers. But behind the crown lies a deeper feud over how to keep a fading industry alive. @rtkwrites explains: bloom.bg/4oTPfib


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Mexico’s Fátima Bosch just won Miss Universe after a scandalous clash with one of the pageant’s organizers. But behind the crown lies a deeper feud over how to keep a fading industry alive. @rtkwrites explains: bloom.bg/4oTPfib


There’s a brawl at Miss Universe this year. Not between contestants, but between the two men running it. Read my first big story since returning to Bangkok: bloomberg.com/news/features/…


Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul’s government has green-lit a $1.36 billion consumption stimulus program to boost a weakening economy and its popularity ahead of a general election.

rtkwrites's tweet image. Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul’s government has green-lit a $1.36 billion consumption stimulus program to boost a weakening economy and its popularity ahead of a general election.

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Canadian consumer prices accelerated for the first time in four months and underlying price pressures firmed, likely keeping the central bank from cutting interest rates later this month bloomberg.com/news/articles/…


It seems that nothing Canada has tried so far has shielded it from the threats of Donald Trump. Love this quote from @Karl_Schamotta: “There was hope that there was light at the end of the tunnel — unfortunately it appears that light is a train.” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…


Canadians are committed to ditching US travel, taking the fewest number of car trips there in the year’s first half since at least 2017, excluding the pandemic. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…


A growing number of migrants in the US are heading north, even as Canada adopts increasingly restrictive immigration policies of its own. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…


Canada should become a world leader in producing and processing raw materials for military equipment and defense systems, according to @BizCouncilofCan bloomberg.com/news/articles/…


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