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Showing posts with label Budget 2010. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Budget 2010. Show all posts
14 June 2010

The M-shaped recovery

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You’ve heard of the W-shaped recession. Now think about an M-shaped recovery in the middle. Rather than two dips and then a rise, this wou...
05 June 2010

Oil’s down, budget pucker factor up …again

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When you project an average price of oil at US$83 and forecast a billion dollar budget shortfall on that basis, having oil at US$71-ish mus...
27 April 2010

Where the money goes – 15 years later

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Just to put the Strategic Social Plan (1995) in a bit of context, you should realise that health care spending as a share of the provincial...
30 March 2010

NL economy “fragile”: Williams’ finance minister

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“When there is uncertainty, when the economy is fragile, government steps into the breach.” That’s the way finance minister Tom Marshall e...
29 March 2010

Burdening our children with increased debt: fish centre costs escalate wildly

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An aquaculture centre that was supposed to have opened in 2009 for a cost of $4.2 million will now cost $8.8 million and construction isn’...

Budget 2010: prep work

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Some things to watch for in Budget 2010: 1.  Deficit 2009 .  Check to see how big the accrual deficit is, but expect that to be pretty muc...
16 March 2010

House to open two weeks late

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Surprisingly this didn’t get announced yesterday – on a government holiday – along with the news Hisself had returned to work. The House o...
03 March 2010

Firds of a bleather

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Provincial finance minister Tom Marshall, speaking in Corner Brook in mid-February: “Now we have to benefit from new industry, benefit...
02 March 2010

A knowledge economy, indeed

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Finance minister Tom Marshall , in mid-February 2010: “Now we have to benefit from new industry, benefit from the knowledge economy, th...

Oil production figures

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BP gave you the numbers in November 2009 . Turns out the provincial finance department’s statistics division did a run of the same figures...
20 February 2010

Budget hints from Marshall

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Excerpts from a speech by finance minister Tom Marshall, in Corner Brook, as reported by the Western Star : Although he said the rate t...
18 January 2010

Budget consultation farce: more evidence

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Normally, budget decisions wouldn’t be announced until after the provincial government budget for the upcoming fiscal year is formally prese...
10 January 2010

A statement of fact isn’t a criticism

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Finance minister Tom Marshall told the Telegram’ s Dave Bartlett a few interesting things in an interview that appeared in the Saturday prin...
09 January 2010

Budget 2010: Slowly the facts emerges

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From an interview with the Telegram (not online) here’s a telling little statement from finance minister Tom Marshall: He said corpora...