Chrystia Freeland announced this morning that she will enter the leadership race for the head of the Liberal Party and Prime Minister of Canada.

Economists now, on average, predict inflation will be 2.6 per cent this year, up from 2.2 per cent before the election, according to forecast aggregator Consensus Economics, due to the risk that Trump’s biggest policy pledges on immigration, tariffs and tax cuts, and cutting red tape could raise the cost of living.

Voters consistently ranked economic issues including the cost of living as the most important issue in deciding their choice for president, according to the FT-Michigan Ross poll. But those voters are set to be disappointed, economists have warned, as Trump pursues aggressive tariffs.

DeepSeek’s bombshell claim of a dirt-cheap, world-class artificial intelligence rig blew a $600 billion hole in Nvidia’s market value Monday. America’s confidence in its AI lead over China seems to have vaporized like our atomic chauvinism after the 1949 Russian A-bomb test.

Experts believe Trump would struggle to replace tax revenue with income from tariffs, as the president has recently suggested.

Shortly after taking office last week, Trump set a Feb. 1 deadline for imposing 25% tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada unless the countries move to halt flows of illegal immigrants and the deadly opioid fentanyl into the U.S. He also said he would slap a 10% tariff on Chinese goods over that country's role in the fentanyl trade.

DeepSeek’s A.I. models show that China is making rapid gains in the field, despite American efforts to hinder it.

Here are five economic forces that could shape the first year of Trump's presidency: Whipping inflation is easier said than done.

If the Trump administration succeeds in deporting millions of immigrants, it will slow economic growth and productivity gains.

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