The Sir Robert Bond Papers

If we had Equalization, we'd have a budget surplus. On Friday, 20 Mar 20, Premier Dwight Ball wrote to the Prime minister to say t...

Going around in circles must be frustrating. Plummeting crude prices have dropped refining margins to negative numbers and so it is...

Bank of Canada 234 Wellington St, Ottawa The Bank of Canada announced today that it will purchase up to 40% of money market securities...

Tom Osborne was in Ottawa on Tuesday with his fellow finance ministers trying to squeeze some extra cash out of the federal government.  ...

The problem we have is not a lack of options and opportunities to sort out the government finances ourselves.  The problem facing Newfoundl...

Moody’s delivered a clear and serious message to the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador on Wednesday night by lowering the government...

The Premier had a carefully rehearsed message when reporters asked him on Thursday why he had appointed everyone in cabinet back to their ol...

The House of Assembly will have to deliver a budget that keeps access to new public debt for the foreseeable future. The politicians must s...

In the episode that aired on 26 May 2019, Premier Dwight Ball told NTV's Issues and Answers that the deficit for the current budget is ...

The financial reality confronting any administration after May 16 is the same regardless of which party wins the election.   The governm...

Budget 2019 was an election budget in the sense it contained a lot of little goodies, but there was nothing to get overly excited about. W...

Most of the commentary about Budget 2019 on Tuesday will be focused on the short-term. Here are some slides that show longer-term trending....

This originally appeared in The Telegram , 30 Jan 2019. Budget consultations are not the place for serious discussions of government f...

People are talking about austerity but the simple truth is the people talking that way have a vested interest in exaggerating what is going...

David Thompson is an independent economist in the same way that Jerry Earle and Wayne Lucas are independent human resource consultants. Bu...

Before Newfoundlanders stopped governing themselves in the early winter of 1934, they’d run a sometimes arduous course. Newfoundland gaine...

On the first day of the session in the House of Assembly, the finance minister tabled an interim supply bill for slightly more than $2.7 bil...

Has anyone noticed a small problem in all the discussions about next year’s budget? On Point’s David Cochrane had both NAPE’s Carol Furl...

“I didn’t see this coming,”  Memorial University economist Wade Locke told the Telegram’s James McLeod the other day. Locke was talking abo...

On the outside, the spring budget for 2014 looks like a delicious assortment of goodies for everyone.  You can tell it is delectable because...