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"Buy Canadian" boycott takes off

2025/5/19
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Nina Eihacker: 作为一名经济学教授,我认为三大评级机构下调美国信用评级,表明人们越来越意识到国会在政府支出方面的政治动荡。此次降级并非发生在债务上限对峙之后,而是预测政府在减少债务的言论与实际政策之间的差距会越来越大。美国经济建立在稳定和政策一致性的基础上,而美国经济的稳定很大程度上来自于全球对美元的巨大需求。所有这些举措都在削弱美元的优势,美元和美国政府债券的稳定性肯定在降低。我通常对财政政策持乐观态度,支持政府在福利和产业政策上的支出,但前提是全球对政府偿还债务和推行促进经济增长政策有信心,然而维系商业成功的制度正在迅速瓦解。如果未来18个月到两年内发生经济衰退,考虑到赤字和政治功能失调,推出刺激计划将会更加困难。本届政府已经削减了许多救济项目,而这些项目在帮助美国从新冠疫情中复苏方面发挥了重要作用,本届政府似乎不太可能采用历史上帮助美国摆脱衰退的工具。我非常担心目前的情况,许多公司正在将巨大的负面冲击内化到运营中,我对此并不乐观。我认为生产者将开始感受到成本增加的影响,这可能会导致失业率上升和消费减少。

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These days, Canadian consumers aren’t just interested in supporting their own homegrown businesses — they’re also actively avoiding American ones. In this episode, Marketplace’s Kimberly Adams visits businesses in Ontario to hear why our neighbors to the north are shunning U.S.-made products. Plus: An economist dissects the Moody’s downgrade of the U.S. credit rating, a Black-owned lender leverages grants from major banks to support its community and AI threatens the software engineering job sector.