RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:StockTalk Podcast The #1 commodity in Canada is no longer oil. Real estate and it's "parts" (mortgages, banks, legal, construction, etc...) amounts as the biggest industry to the Canadian economy now.
nozzpack wrote:
Let's put this in perspective .
Related information about United States Government Debt: % of GDP
- In the latest reports, US National Government Debt reached 31,459.3 USD bn in Feb 2023.
- The country's Nominal GDP reached 6,534.5 USD bn in Dec 2022.
- That about gdp to debt of 450% and rising by $2 Trillion per year
Canada's is close to 100 with GDP in 2022 at $1.95 trillion and total Provincial / Federal debt about the same amount in 2022.
The Ginni idex in Canada is about 25 and over 40 in the US.
The US banking system is in dire straits and the USD is in its way out.
Plus we have a very robust commodity index.
So, Canada is in much better shape to withstand a recession than the US