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There is much debate about whether or not the US Federal Reserve acted quickly enough to restrain accelerating inflation. Professor Michael D. Bordo, the Board of Governors Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Monetary and Financial History at Rutgers University, discussed the evolving doctrine, reading inflation signals and understanding the economy, the Fed’s interpretation of the dual mandate and implications of political pressure during the C.D. Howe Institute's…

The following is a transcript of remarks presented by the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, to the C.D. Howe Institute's Sylvia Ostry Lecture. 

Toronto, September 13, 2016

Good morning.

Thank you for your kind introduction, John, and thank you, Bill Robson and the C.D. Howe Institute, for your invitation and for hosting this wonderful event today.

I am grateful for the opportunity to deliver a lecture in…

The C.D. Howe Institute hosted a small group of thinkers drawn from Canada’s foremost leaders in First Nations education on April 15, 2016. The group gathered to discuss goals for students, the roles and responsibilities of government, and practical steps towards achieving measurable and attainable improvement in education outcomes for First Nations students.

The C.D. Howe Institute hosted a small group of thinkers drawn from Canada’s foremost leaders in First Nations education on April 15, 2016. The group gathered to discuss goals for students, the roles and responsibilities of government, and practical steps towards achieving measurable and attainable improvement in education outcomes for First Nations students.

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Thank you for inviting me to speak to you today.

I’m an associate director of research at the C.D. Howe Institute.

For those not aware, the C.D. Howe Institute is an independent not-for-profit research institute whose mission is to raise Canadian living standards by fostering economically sound public policies.

If I knew better than anyone else what the future of the oil gas sector looked like, I’d currently be scuba diving off my own private yacht…