Bank of Canada’s Tiff Macklem spells out limits of monetary policy, says interest rates won’t solve housing affordability

Monetary policy cannot solve Canada’s housing affordability problem or boost the country’s longer-term economic growth prospects, Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem said Tuesday in a speech aimed at defining the limits of what central bankers can achieve by setting interest rates. He argued that…

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