The drop in global oil demand and subsequent economic shakeout proceed to shake up Alberta’s actual estate economic system. Nonetheless, it continues to be burdened by quite a few long-standing structural issues, including a rigid labor market; stagnant productivity; excessive tax charges; a big, albeit declining, volume of non-performing loans within the banking sector; and high public debt.

Enterprise cycles within the US, different advanced economies (AEs), and rising market and developing economies (EMDEs) have been highly synchronous (Determine 1.A). This partly reflects the strength of world trade and monetary linkages of the US economy with the remainder of the world, but additionally that international shocks drive frequent cyclical fluctuations.

Different nations are usually in th...