The Sir Robert Bond Papers

The St. John's Board of Trade and the provincial Employers' Council aren't happy that the government has shelved its plans for a...

For those who find this stuff interesting, here are some numbers to mull over. You may have heard of comparing the net debt to the gross d...

During Question Period in the House of Assembly on Tuesday, Lorraine Michael asked the finance minister for the information that showed that...

Premier Peek-a-Boo took time out of his long, slow wander to the Premier’s Office this week to do an interview with the Grand Falls-Windsor ...

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

It’s the sort of thing that leaps out at you.  As SRBP mentioned on Thursday, in her book Shopping for votes veteran political reporter ...

A release on Friday from Statistics Canada showed that the provincial economy shrank by almost 5% in 2012.  They even supplied a lovely cha...

For those who have been following the issue, SRBP and others were talking about remittance work back in 2007. It remains a key part of th...

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...

First, there’s a new post at the Monkey Cage that notes a discussion in economist circles about public discussions of economic subjects: ...

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

The Telegram’s James Macleod had a decent front page summary of the Harris Centre’s discussion of economic issues facing the province and t...

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 issued in the province in April fell by 16% compared to the same month in 2010 according to information relea...

Finance minister Tom Marshall has always had a curious relationship with reality. He likes to talk about debt reduction, for example, but ...

The following chart shows personal bankruptcies in Newfoundland and Labrador from 1991 to 2009. Data is from Statistics Canada, compiled b...

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

The value of non-residential construction in Newfoundland and Labrador increased 23.6% in the fourth quarter of 2010 compared to the third q...

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

The value of all building permits issued in Newfoundland and Labrador in November 2010 dropped 49.3% from the month before, according to fig...