US Housing Starts & Permits Shoot Up, Canada Railway Strike Begins
An unfortunate truth of life, economics, and physics is that not all things can go up at the same time. Once up, they don’t always stay there. This is a week of mixed news: US home building activity continues to improve, but in Canada forest operators are facing work-stoppage with one of the two railways. In regards to this CN Rail strike; usually these last just a few days. However, at this time the House of Commons does not sit…