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​​DEBT data are book value quarterly; GDP data are seasonally adjusted at annual rates; FDI FDO data are annual; ​NET TRADE data are seasonally adjusted monthly.
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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, $1.47 leaves (full year 2018 data).
3. Since the 4th Quarter 2009, the Canadian Balance of Trade has been negative for 9 out of the last 10 quarterly prints, which means that OUR debt obligations continue to provide more stimulus to offshore than onshore producers.​

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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
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The 20 year widening super trend is accelerating.

​Canada Households Debt To Disposable Income
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Households Debt in Canada increased to 176.01 percent of gross income in 2018 from 171.31 percent in 2018.

​Households Debt To Income in Canada averaged 127.74 percent from 1990 until 2018, reaching an all time high of 176.01 percent in the third quarter of 2018 and a record low of 85.94 percent in the first quarter of 1990. 
TradingEconomics.com​

​Household Debt to Income

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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​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.
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With the 2018 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.
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ITEM: "Investment outflow from Canada aleady underway in 'real time' says RBC Head. Toronto City News, April 1, 2018

StatsCan NOTES on 2018 FDI-FDO
SNIPPIT:  "On a regional basis, nearly three quarters of the 2018 increase in the stock of Canadian direct investment abroad was due to higher investment positions in the North America region, primarily the United States (up $70 billion to $595 billion).

​Most of the remaining increase was in Europe, led by higher investment in the United Kingdom (up $12 billion to $109 billion) and Luxembourg (up $8 billion to $90 billion)."

CME 2019 Outlook​:​  IS A RECESSION LURKING AROUND THE CORNER?
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Whatever goes up must come down and, the economic expansion in the US has be long lived.

​There are early warning signs – equity market volatility, a declining yield curve, and growing business pessimism – that could signal an economic downturn in the US within the next 12-24 months. If that happens, Canada will follow suit.

​CME 2012 Data: Canada is the fifth largest investor in Mexico. More than 3,000 companies in Mexico operate with Canadian capital. 

​There are an estimated 2,500 Canadian affiliates based out of Mexico, the largest ones being Goldcorp, Bombardier and Scotiabank.
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