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Bates Solutions · experiment · Sep 2026 to now

USD/CAD, GDP and oil for Canada and the US since 1971, charted against every Prime Minister, President and election.

An interactive data story: daily USD/CAD, quarterly real GDP and GDP per person for both countries, and WTI oil, from Federal Reserve, Statistics Canada and BEA data, refreshed monthly. Each series runs against the Prime Ministers, Presidents and elections of the period.

  • 55 years of daily USD/CAD, from 1971

stack: React, TypeScript, d3, AWS, Terraform

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