Summer 2020 Outlook

QEDinc’s Summer 2020 outlook is now available. Economic forecasts for 2020 and 2021 are strictly a story telling motif. They are predicated on too many assumptions about the pandemic and its consequences for public health, societal behaviour, public policy,...

Working Beyond 20/20

Statistics Canada’s decision last year to retire its archaic, legacy data browser Beyond 20/20 left me scrambling for an alternative. Anybody that has ever needed to download, manipulate and view some of Statistics Canada’s largest and most complicated matrices grew...

The role of quantitative analysis in decision making

Making informed decisions is hard. Diverse points of view need to be solicited from as many stakeholders as possible. Many opinions, and resulting decisions, will be based on ideological, political or self-interested perspectives. Unbiased, third-party perspectives...
Economist’s Corner

Economist’s Corner

The economist’s corner is a collection of Robin’s musings on economics and being an economist. In the current vernacular it could be called a very unambitious blog.