Canadian Household Debt, GDP, Foreign Direct Investment and Balance of Trade FDI NOTES BELOW and Mexican Peso & Canadian Dollar Google Search BELOW
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Statecrafted ZIRP & NIRP since the crash into 2009 has resulted in more consumption debt and less production investment in Canada.
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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.
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.
Canadian Household Debt to Disposable Income
and Share of Wealth by Generation
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TRADING ECONOMICS FORECAST
Households Debt in Canada decreased to 166.78 percent of gross income in 2020 from 172.22 percent in 2020 (2Q 2020). Households Debt To Income in Canada is expected to be 174.80 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 174.80 in 12 months time. In the long-term, the Canada Households Credit Market Debt to Disposable Income is projected to trend around 174.79 percent in 2021 and 175.33 percent in 2022, according to our econometric models.
TradingEconomics.com
source: tradingeconomics.com
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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 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 |
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 Pit of Gloom with 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.
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.
ITEM: "Investment outflow from Canada aleady underway in 'real time' says RBC Head. Toronto City News, April 1, 2018
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."
