The recent decision by the Bank of Canada regarding interest rates didn’t involve any cuts, but it did shed light on the bank’s outlook on where interest rates might be headed.
While maintaining the overnight interest rate at 5%, the Bank of Canada made a notable adjustment: it increased its nominal neutral interest rate.
The neutral rate represents the point at which the central bank’s monetary policy neither stimulates nor restrains the economy.
This rate essentially functions as the “Goldilocks” interest rate, as described by Sheila Block, an economist and research associate at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. It’s the rate at which more…