P.E.I. throne speech focuses on strengthening economy in face of U.S. tariff threats

If you look at the U.S. economy from a perspective based on “hard” indicators – those that reflect what is actually happening in economic activity – the picture looks solid. In the last quarter of 2024, GDP grew at an annualized rate of 2.3 percent, surpassing its potential level. The unemployment rate in February was 4.1 percent, which is considered full employment or the level of natural equilibrium of the labor market. In February, industrial…

Three big shocks facing the global economy - Zanny Minton Beddoes

According to The Economist editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes, 2025 is shaping to be a historic turning point defined by three massive global shocks. “Each of which is big enough for our grandchildren to have a chapter in their history books,” she warns on GZERO World with Ian Bremmer. The first is geopolitical: the United States, once the architect of the global alliance system, is now actively challenging—and possibly undermining—it. The sec…

Ramstad: Tile Shop spent years sliding out of the tariff bullseye

Plymouth-based retailer received nearly half its goods from China eight years ago. Today, it hardly gets anything from there.

Paul de Jong: In the face of today’s economic threats, it’s time for Canada to get building

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P.E.I. throne speech focuses on strengthening economy in face of U.S. tariff threats

The government led by Premier Rob Lantz says Islanders will band together to surmount the challenge

Tariff uncertainty looms with P.E.I. legislature set to resume Tuesday

Much has changed politically since the P.E.I. legislature last sat in the fall: There's a new premier, Canada has a new prime minister and Donald Trump has returned to the White House.