The Sir Robert Bond Papers

The provincial government has a very serious financial problem.  The forecast deficit for the current year is the second highest on record...

This year it is Charlene Johnson’s turn to host a series of meetings across the province that the provincial Conservatives cynically tout a...

If you accept the provincial government’s version of things, spending a half a billion dollars more than you are collecting is a responsible...

[Note – see below] The throne speech promised that the same Conservative financial management that produced the current financial mess wou...

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...

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...

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

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

Provincial government oil production forecast remains way off track. Budget 2009 predicted oil production would total 98 million barrels i...

While gross domestic product in Newfoundland and Labrador is now forecast by the provincial finance department to shrink by 8.5%, finance mi...

High prices and better royalty rates on Hibernia didn’t offset oil production declines in September for the Newfoundland and Labrador offsho...

According to the Premier the relatively high price of oil at the moment is a good thing, with the prospect that it could wipe out the provin...

For the first time in four years, provincial government oil price projections aren’t lowballed .  They did manage to lowball production le...

The giant pop was the bubble that was protecting the province from the global economic meltdown as it burst. Former finance minister Tom...

There is an unprecedented, historic level of money in yesterday’s provincial government pre-budget spending announcement that is recycled c...

That 60 cycle hum you hear is not the turbines spooling up on the Lower Churchill. Nope. That noise would be the intense spin – torque w...

1.   The long and short of it :  Some revenues are higher than projected.  Spending  remains the same.  The update runs six pages.  Four of...

Memorial University economist Wade Locke: "The price of oil has already averaged in excess of $110, $115 per barrel for the year s...

One of the great unfacts that has crept into political dialogue in Newfoundland and Labrador is that fiscal accountability and sound mana...