The Sir Robert Bond Papers

The Conference Board of Canada says the recent budget has tipped the provincial economy into a recession next year. Finance minister Cathy...

Not so very long ago,  provincial Conservatives were crowing about how they would be running all sorts of mining projects in Labrador using ...

We’ve got a provincial government in Newfoundland and Labrador that has been budgeting for years to spend more than it brought in. Way bac...

The Conference Board of Canada released a report last week that assessed economic performance in each of the provinces in Canada. “The res...

Premier Kathy Dunderdale wants to have a  “conversation” about the provincial government’s financial mess and the ways we might fix it. That...

Gabriella Sabau is an economics professor at Memorial University's Grenfell campus out in Corner Brook. Sabau thinks Muskrat Falls is...

Around this time of year the country’s major banks issue their economic assessments of the current year and their forecasts of the coming on...

The Canadian economy will slow in the months ahead, according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). As the C...

New Brunswick’s David Campbell has an interesting post about the folly of believing that things go in straight lines. Like say, oil prices...

Along with population statistics, here’s another one you can bet the current provincial Conservative crowd won’t be holding out quite as ent...

Canadian household debt is at at record levels according to report by the Certified General Accountants Association . The latest report ad...

The government’s favourite economist is sounding alarm bells about the provincial government’s financial health.  The finance minister, on ...

The value of building permits in Newfoundland and Labrador dropped again in December, to $76 million from $90 million in November according ...

Curiously, BMO’s latest economic forecast for the province doesn’t include any reference to Muskrat Falls. The bank’s economists forecast...

Far from being hard done-by when it comes to federal jobs in the province, Newfoundland and Labrador is pretty much on par, according to a r...

Crude oil finished the week on a high , with Brent coming closer to US$90 a barrel than at any time since October 2008. That’s good. Rig...

Newfoundland and Labrador was the only province to experience a population loss in the second quarter of 2010, according to figures released...

From RBC Economics : Atlantic Canada’s housing market was not immune to the significant slowdown in activity that has swept across the ...

Highlights of the latest RBC Economics forecast for Newfoundland and Labrador in 2010: Real GDP to grow at 3.3% for the year, down fro...

We are in a bubble. I think we are in a protected bubble . That’s Danny Williams making a few observations at the close of the most re...