- 169
- Episodes
- 151
- Transcribed
- 202
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
- 370M
- YouTube views
About Cost of Living
Money talks. We translate. Every Friday, Paul Haavardsrud looks at the way money shapes our lives in ways big, small, obvious, and unseen. From Big Macs to Big Banks, the Cost of Living connects the dots between the economy and everyday life.
- Publisher
- CBC
- Category
- business
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 6 Oct 2023
- Latest episode
- 19 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
151 of 169 episodes have a transcript.
19 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Has Canada won over global investors?
15 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
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12 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
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Has Canada won over global investors?
Published 19 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Companies have been asking for a long time to increase what they call capital cost allowance, increase the deductibility. The nirvana for them, the kind of holy grail moment would be if they could do it all at once. And they got that all at once. It was one of the first things Carney and his government announced at the very beginning of the summit on Tuesday morning. And people were astounded. And the idea here is to get companies to invest in things like equipment and software and buildings and pipes and fiber op, because whatever it is, and then be able to write that down right away. So all of a sudden, the numbers make sense. […]
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- Rob Russo
- Ben Mackenzie
- Barry Appleton
- Ben McKenzie
- Skyler Chan
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
- YouTube views
- 369,942,905
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 13 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.6 / 5
- 189 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 77 / 100
A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.
- Quality
- 78
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 95
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