this post was submitted on 06 May 2025
72 points (100.0% liked)

Canada

9676 readers
606 users here now

What's going on Canada?



Related Communities


🍁 Meta


🗺️ Provinces / Territories


🏙️ Cities / Local Communities

Sorted alphabetically by city name.


🏒 SportsHockey

Football (NFL): incomplete

Football (CFL): incomplete

Baseball

Basketball

Soccer


💻 Schools / Universities

Sorted by province, then by total full-time enrolment.


💵 Finance, Shopping, Sales


🗣️ Politics


🍁 Social / Culture


Rules

  1. Keep the original title when submitting an article. You can put your own commentary in the body of the post or in the comment section.

Reminder that the rules for lemmy.ca also apply here. See the sidebar on the homepage: lemmy.ca


founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

One thing that can be said for Carney is that over the course of his long career as a banker he must have had considerable experience dealing with people like Trump. By which of course I mean people who are rich and powerful, very great and successful.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Running a central bank isn't exactly dealing with a real estate loans portfolio.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

That's true, but they do have to deal with politicians making demands of them all the time. So, he's probably used to trying to do the right thing for the economy, while not freaking out the markets, and while handling politicians who want quick economic fixes to boost their election chances.