{"id":7395,"date":"2021-02-10T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T12:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/02\/10\/brace-yourself-for-very-dismal-economic-numbers-then-a-rush-for-restaurant-reservations-podcast\/"},"modified":"2021-02-10T12:00:03","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T12:00:03","slug":"brace-yourself-for-very-dismal-economic-numbers-then-a-rush-for-restaurant-reservations-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/02\/10\/brace-yourself-for-very-dismal-economic-numbers-then-a-rush-for-restaurant-reservations-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Brace yourself for &#8216;very dismal&#8217; economic numbers, then a rush for restaurant reservations \u2014 podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\" class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n<h2 class=\"visually-hidden\">Breadcrumb Trail Links<\/h2>\n<ol class=\"breadcrumbs__items list-unstyled\">\n<li class=\"breadcrumbs__item\"> News <\/li>\n<li class=\"breadcrumbs__item\"> Economy <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/nav>\n<p class=\"article-subtitle\"> Episode 88 of Down to Business podcast <\/p>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<div class=\"published-by\">\n<p>Author of the article:<\/p>\n<p> <span class=\"published-by__author\">Gabriel Friedman<\/span> <\/div>\n<div class=\"published-date\">\n<p>Publishing date:<\/p>\n<p> <span class=\"published-date__since\">Feb 10, 2021<\/span> \u00a0\u2022\u00a0 <span class=\"updated-date__since\">9\u00a0hours ago<\/span> \u00a0\u2022\u00a0 <span class=\"published-date__word-count\">1 minute read<\/span> <\/div><\/div>\n<figure class=\"featured-image\"><picture class=\"featured-image__ratio featured-image-category__economy\"><\/picture><figcaption class=\"featured-image__caption image-caption\"><span class=\"caption\">We have to live through the impact of the second wave and its economic consequences, says Deloitte chief economist Craig Alexander, but by the end of the year you won&#8217;t be able to get a restaurant reservation.<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">Photo by Reuters\/Phil Noble\/File Photo<\/span> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"\">\n<h2 class=\"visually-hidden\">Article content<\/h2>\n<p>In January 2021, Canada shed over 200,000 jobs, mostly in Ontario and Quebec.<\/p>\n<p>This week on Down to Business, Craig Alexander, chief economist at Deloitte Canada, offered his opinion on what lies ahead as we battle a second wave of the coronavirus and try to distribute a COVID-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander said the severity of the second wave has been worse than many hoped, and pushed the unemployment level back up to the highest level in decades. The impact on small businesses, and people in the food and accommodation sector cannot be glossed over, he said.<\/p>\n<p>But when the first lockdown ended, economic demand came back with a vengeance, and he\u2019s expecting this to happen again \u2014 that very soon, it\u2019ll be impossible to get a reservation at a restaurant, that we\u2019ll all be waiting in long lines to see movies and the economy will come roaring back.<\/p>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" id=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/17888213\/height\/360\/theme\/legacy\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/backward\/\" style=\"--height: 360px; border: none\" width=\"360\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<section aria-labelledby=\"moreTopicLabel\" class=\"more-topic\"><button aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"more-topic__button-prev\" tabindex=\"-1\" title=\"previous\" type=\"button\"\/><button aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"more-topic__button-next\" tabindex=\"-1\" title=\"next\" type=\"button\"\/><\/section>\n<\/div>\n\n<br \/>Brace yourself for &#8216;very dismal&#8217; economic numbers, then a rush for restaurant reservations \u2014 podcast<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2021-02-10 12:00:03<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breadcrumb Trail Links News Economy Episode 88 of Down to Business podcast Author of the article: Gabriel Friedman Publishing date: Feb 10, 2021 \u00a0\u2022\u00a0 9\u00a0hours ago \u00a0\u2022\u00a0 1 minute read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/smartcdn.prod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/lockdown0209.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=288","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/7396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}