Fiscal Issues

BUDGET 2022-23: HOW DID MOYA GREENE GET IT SO WRONG?

Finance Minister Siobhan Coady delivered the 2022-23 Provincial Budget last week, enshrouded in the kind of rhetoric that suggests the Government is prudently managing our finances. Let’s take a look at the 2022-23 Budget Estimates to see if what she is selling is in line with the reality that the PERT Report described only one year ago.

DON’T BE ‘FUELLED’ BY HIGH OIL PRICES

If you visited the pumps lately, you likely came face to face with oil prices north of $1.60/L. The pricing pressure begins downstream; Brent crude/barrel...

THE MUSKRAT FALLS HOUSE OF CARDS – POSTPONING THE DAY OF RECKONING

Guest Post by Ron PenneyI, and some of my fellow naysayers, have been trying to understand the latest scheme for rate mitigation, announced just before...

BUDGET 2021: LOOKS A LOT LIKE JIGGERY POKERY

If you hoped for something more than rhetoric from Premier Furey’s ebullient Minister of Finance or a definitive response to the debt crisis of the Province,...

THE GHOST OF SIR RICHARD WEIGHS: A BUDGET PRIMER

 When Finance Minister Siobhan Coady rises in the House on May 31 to deliver the Furey Government’s first Budget, it will be a test not...

IS IT POSSIBLE TO ELIMINATE THE DEFICIT IN NL?

Guest Post by PlanetNL PlanetNL33: Deficit Elimination? NL is Too Far Gone A Pessimistic Interpretation of the Greene Report  Moya Greene’s “Big Reset” Report, the final product...

Self reliance or Commission of Government? The choice is ours.

Guest Post by Ron Penney  I don’t really think we will have the second Commission of Government, it will likely be some faceless federal bureaucrat in the...

THE “BIG RESET”: TIME TO WAKE UP. TIME TO ACT.

SummaryThe PERT Report, titled the “Big Reset”, authored by Moya Greene, has been already greeted with derision by labour and others in denial. A public...