Neil Reynolds | October 27, 2010

Boston University economist Laurence Kotlikoff says U.S. government debt is not $13.5-trillion (U.S.), which is 60 per cent of current gross domestic product, as global investors and American taxpayers think, but rather 14-fold higher: $200-trillion - 840 per cent of current GDP. "Let's get real," Prof. Kotlikoff says. "The U.S. is bankrupt."

Writing in the September ...

Building permits posted an unexpected 21-percent decline in April. BNN speaks with David Madani of Capital Economics about the data – and his belief that the Canadian housing market is set for a 25 percent pullback in prices.

BUILDING PERMITS DECLINE

The value of building permits issued in Canada in April unexpectedly plummeted 21.1 percent from March on weakness in the powerful pro...