John Rapley
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- Sep 25, 2026
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Ranking Canada’s Top Growing Companies of 2026 (opens the original)
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For the past eight years, Report on Business magazine has produced a ranking of Canada’s Top Growing Companies, measuring businesses on three-year revenue growth. These companies represent the entire spectrum of the Canadian economy, from mining to tech to retail and more. One thing this cohort of 375 companies has in common, though, is tenacity—they continue to show outstanding growth despite operating through an escalating trade war and economic uncertainty. Read on to see who made the list. L
Opinion: China and the U.S., the worst frenemies of the world economy (opens the original)
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John Rapley is a contributing columnist for The Globe and Mail. He is an author and academic whose books include Why Empires Fall and Twilight of the Money Gods. We all wanted China and the United States to iron out their differences at this week’s summit – as the African proverb has it, when the elephants fight, the grass gets trampled. But what we need more than anything is for them to overcome not what divides them, but what unites them: A structural commonality that’s causing problems for th
Opinion: Carney did a lot this week, but it’s what he didn’t do that matters more (opens the original)
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John Rapley is a contributing columnist for The Globe and Mail. He is an author and academic whose books include Why Empires Fall and Twilight of the Money Gods. If you build it, they will come. The iconic line, paraphrased from Field of Dreams, would make an apt motto for an investment conference. That is, while big marketing events have their place in promoting Canada as an investment destination, the country’s success in luring capital will come not from talking but from doing – namely, build
Opinion: War, oil shock, debt and inflation: Four horsemen of the fall apocalypse (opens the original)
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John Rapley is a contributing columnist for The Globe and Mail. He is an author and academic whose books include Why Empires Fall and Twilight of the Money Gods. This week’s U.S. inflation reports showed that the oil shock has finally started to bite. The Mideast war will really start to come home now. Friday’s Consumer Price Index produced a core measure hotter than expected, and worse news had come in the previous day’s Producer Price Index. With the latter now running above 5 per cent, yet mo
Opinion: Trump wanted to blow up Iran. He blew up the bond market instead (opens the original)
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John Rapley is a contributing columnist for The Globe and Mail. He is an author and academic whose books include Why Empires Fall and Twilight of the Money Gods. Donald Trump said he’d blow up Kharg Island. He may have blown up the bond market instead. The market has been a tinderbox for months, if not years. Government debt has been rising for decades but blasted off after the 2008 financial crisis, then reached hyper-speed during the pandemic. In consequence, the total global stock of governme
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