This is a blog about economic matters but I can’t help but comment on the Times & Transcripts blatant defense of Premier Lord in Saturday’s paper. Now anyone who reads the T&T realizes that it is stronly supportive of Premier…
Continue ReadingThe Myth of Statistics
Politicians love to throw around statistical one liners such as ‘led the county in growth’, ‘lowest unemployment in a generation’, etc. When the stats go in their favour they shout from the highest heavens. When they don’t, there’s always an…
Continue ReadingThe ‘Spin’ Trap
Politics is an interesting game. When you are in the opposition, you hammer away at the government for its policies and lack of results. Then when you get in office you continue to blame the previous government for all that’s…
Continue ReadingA Tale of Two Cities
I’ll tell you right off the bat, I am not picking on the New Brunswick city in question. I just happened across its population in 1901 and decided to take a closer look. Here’s a pop quiz. It’s 1901. There…
Continue ReadingSettling into the new Normalcy
I just heard on the CBC that a new study in Nova Scotia predicts that there will not be a teacher shortage after all (there had been one predicted) because the declining number of teachers will be offset by the…
Continue ReadingThe source of apathy
The Commission on Legislative Democracy, headed up by long time Tory backroom operative, David McLaughlin, will be releasing its final report tomorrow and according to the Times and Transcript will be “recommending a sweeping makeover of New Brunswick’s political system,…
Continue ReadingA short history lesson
First things first. I don’t pretend to be a historian. However, I am a bit of a student of economic history – in particularly related to New Brunswick. So I offer this short history for your consideration. Going back 50…
Continue ReadingWhat is a subsidy?
The debate rages on about government subsidizing business. The media decries government for subsidizing business while at the same time closing hospital beds and cutting social programs. I think people have misconstrued the definition of a subsidy and now believe…
Continue ReadingNB exports show worrying trend
What you won’t read in the Times & Transcript is anything remotely related to bad news on the economy. So, you will have to read it here. There is a disturbing trend emerging from New Brunswick’s exports. New Brunswick is…
Continue ReadingWatch the Times & Transcript’s Propaganda
I watch with fascination as the Times & Transcript continues to prop up the obviously weak economic development policies of the provincial government. Today’s headline – N.B. job rate tops in Canada – is an incredible example of that. It…
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