As images from the conflict in Ukraine attest, war can completely change the rules of economics.
Suddenly people who only a month ago were worried about keeping their jobs and paying their mortgages are on the move, some to the Polish border to escape shattered homes, some to risk their lives in battle.
By definition it is the unexpected that perturbs the world economy and the markets that are one of its real-time barometers.
As Canadian inflation hits new highs and the world’s most powerful central bank makes its first attempt to restrain an explosion of rising prices, even a continent away, Russia’s invasion
