Dan Barnett moved to Lake Tahoe, Nevada after a career in Corporate America where he ran businesses for companies such as Pillsbury and Nestle as well as …
Tracking Consumer Spending, Rent Payments and Payrolls
There’s nothing like a crisis to spark some new ideas. One of them is how we gather up economic information. Before the pandemic hit, we were satisfied with …
[Read more...] about Tracking Consumer Spending, Rent Payments and Payrolls
Wallets Flew Open in June
The retail store is not dead. After the COVID lockdown, many Canadians learned the intricacies of shopping on-line, doing curbside pickups and so on because …
Less to spend, more to save
It is something of a return to the good old days. Forty years ago, the average Canadian put roughly 20 per cent of their monthly paycheque into savings. In …
Wholesale sector humming
Saskatchewan’s wholesale sector has been somewhat immune from the Covid-19 pandemic. When the monthly figures for June were released by StatsCan they noted …
Let the combines roll
The annual Saskatchewan mega-project we call harvest is underway. Combines are working their way through early maturing parts of the rotation, while other …