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1. The widening spread between total household debt and household mortgages means we are borrowing even more to maintain lifestyle.
2. Foreign Direct Investment OUT higher than IN over the last 20 years means Canadian  companies are investing outside of Canada to get a better return on Capital and Labour. For every $1 of investment coming in to Canada, $1.43 leaves (full year 2019 data).​
3. The chronic negative Canadian Balance of Trade means that OUR debt obligations continue to provide more stimulus to offshore than onshore producers.​

10 YEAR SPREAD CHANGE

Mortgage Debt: UP 63%
Total Household Debt: UP 53%
Negative FDI: UP 633%
Negative Net Trade: UP 1407%
GDP: UP 14%

​Statecrafted ZIRP & NIRP since the crash into 2009 has resulted in more consumption debt and less production investment in Canada.​

​TRADING ECONOMICS
Canada Industrial Production
In Canada, industrial production measures the output of businesses integrated in industrial sector of the economy such as manufacturing, mining, and utilities. Industrial Production in Canada averaged 1.07 percent from 1998 until 2020, reaching an all time high of 10.26 percent in August of 2010 and a record low of -20.41 percent in April of 2020. The last update was November of 2020.

source: tradingeconomics.com

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​Clearly the post 2008 credit crash period and our monetary policy coming out of it has led not only to a furious bid in real estate assets with all its consequences of draining disposable income, but the gap between mortgage debt and other household debt remains high and wide relative to pre-crash times.​​

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Canadian Household Debt to Disposable Income
and Share of Wealth by Generation​

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TRADING ECONOMICS Households Credit Market Debt to Disposable Income
​​Households Debt in Canada decreased to 166.78 percent of gross income in 2020 from 171.74 percent in 2020. Households Debt To Income in Canada is expected to be 168.00 percent by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. Looking forward, we estimate Households Debt To Income in Canada to stand at 171.00 in 12 months time. In the long-term, the Canada Households Credit Market Debt to Disposable Income is projected to trend around 171.70 percent in 2021 and 173.00 percent in 2022, according to our econometric models. 

source: tradingeconomics.com

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FDI FDO NOTES BELOW

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NOTE ON #2 - Foreign Direct Investment: The difference between Capital Investment leaving Canada to Capital Investment entering Canada has widened dramatically since 2014 by 29%. 

​For every dollar coming into Canada
in 2014, $1.14 left
in 2015, $1.33 left
in 2016, $1.27 left
in 2017, $1.36 left
in 2018, $1.47 left
in 2019, $1.43 left
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The 20 year widening super trend has been accelerating. The growing capital flight out of Canada is at the expense of labour employment. Employment Rate Chart

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​The other features of the chart show that in the decade before the crash as the commodity boom began to peak, our Foreign Direct Investment account flipped poles so that more Canadian capital was being invested offshore than offshore capital was being invested in Canada. Coming out of the March 2009 crash with global monetary policy firmly presiding over state suppression of market interest rates, the shift in polarity in the FDI has little reason to flip back to the 1980's and '90's when more offshore investment capital came into Canada than capital leaving Canada.
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With the 2019 FDI clocking in at another big "wide", the super trend is now very clear; the flight of Canadian capital towards offshore workers is still on and accelerating.​

Cheap capital is in search of cheap productive Labour in an effort to realize a better return on investment from exploiting the price mismatch. Clearly this is working as our deeply negative Balance of Trade data suggest; we buy more than we sell, hence we supply net income to entities outside our "borders" financed and subsidized by our own cheap credit and our willingness to hock the future.​

StatsCan NOTES on 2019 FDI-FDO
SNIPPIT:  "The stock of Canadian direct investment abroad rose 2.5% to $1,391.3 billion at the end of 2019. Significant cross-border investments were moderated by a downward revaluation due to the appreciation of the Canadian dollar against most major foreign currencies.​"

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