Don’t kill the mortgage stress test — modify it: CIBC’s Benjamin Tal

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Benjamin Tal, deputy chief economist of CIBC, speaks about interest rates and the mortgage stress tests designed to cool housing

Benjamin Tal, deputy chief economist of CIBC, speaks with the Financial Post’s Larysa Harapyn about interest rates, Canadians’ insolvency rates and the B-20 mortgage stress test, introduced in January 2018 to cool the housing market.

 

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