Gary Rabbior
Gary Rabbior, president, Canadian Foundation for Economic Education
Bio:

Gary Rabbior is the president of the Canadian Foundation for Economic Education.

Latest Columns:

How interest rates affect your investments

Inflation is important. Inflation expectations, even more so

How markets and currencies work

How aid packages at a prisoner-of-war camp gave rise to a barter system, complete with arbitrage and a futures market

How much money is too much money?

Our economy is not driven by money. No, really.

Avoiding the deflationary spiral

Why lower prices and saving money can be symptoms of bigger economic problems

How inflation works

Why not simply print more money to make everyone in the economy better off? Play the Auction Block game to find out

How the money in the economy is managed

Money dictates the path the economy and prices take. Too much is bad, too little even worse

Understanding the Canadian dollar

A four-part series on understanding what moves the Canadian dollar and how it should be valued

10 tips to improve Canada's financial literacy

The recent calls for more Canadians to know more about their finances is a great opportunity for change

It takes incentives and more than education to change our ways

Programs aimed at kids from kindergarten to Grade 12 to increase their financial literacy are the good move, if they're done right

Why the Canadian dollar has been bouncing higher

The world prices of oil and gold and other commodities have been bouncing around – and the value of the Canadian dollar has been bouncing around with them.