The Twenty-Four Seven by ATB
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Chart of the Week
Chart of the Week: Defensive GDP
The federal government says it has reached its goal of spending 2% of GDP on defence, and is committed to moving to 5%. Where does this show up in the data?
One place is in the monthly GDP data, where federal public administration is split between defence and other. The ‘other’ component has been falling, but the defence component has been spiking.
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THE TWENTY-FOUR (daily)
Retail sales, the unemployment rate, population growth, inflation, international trade—these are just a few of the economic trends the team makes sense of in ATB’s daily insights.
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THE SEVEN (weekly)
A review of the key economic highlights of the week impacting Alberta.
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