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23 January 2013
The Annual Mixed-Message Season #nlpoli
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Right after Ross Reid’s new job, Jerome Kennedy’s trip back to the finance ministry was the second most overblown story of the past week or...
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...
19 February 2009
That’s what that noise was…
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The giant pop was the bubble that was protecting the province from the global economic meltdown as it burst. Former finance minister Tom...
Recycled “stimulus”
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There is an unprecedented, historic level of money in yesterday’s provincial government pre-budget spending announcement that is recycled c...
18 February 2009
Math problems at provincial finance
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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...
09 December 2008
The provincial budget update: six points
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1. The long and short of it : Some revenues are higher than projected. Spending remains the same. The update runs six pages. Four of...
13 November 2008
The burst bubble
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Only a few short weeks ago, Premier Danny Williams was claiming that Newfoundland and Labrador would be largely immune from the global econo...
18 April 2007
Spend 'em if ya got 'em
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At a time when the provincial government is screaming that it needs federal handouts to deal with a huge public debt, finance minister Tom M...
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