While National Newswatch does not keep an archive of external articles for longer than 6 months, we do keep all articles written by contributors who post directly to our site. Here you will find all of the contributed and linked external articles from John Rapley.
Oil briefly hit US$125 on Thursday after U.S. President Donald Trump said the Strait of Hormuz blockade would continue for months. It may seem odd to say that the oil spike caused by the war creates a dilemma for Canada, but the country must now make a difficult decision – and the United Arab Emirates’ departure from OPEC this week...
Someone needs to tell Donald Trump that yelling a lie won’t make doubters believe it. In his defensive, Scrooge-like message from the White House last week, Shouty Claus railed about the awful economy he’d inherited and how hard it’s proving to mend. Nonetheless, he boomed in staccato until he grew breathless, the economy was doing great, it was on the...
Why does Canada exist? That was the unanswered question in the background of the election campaign, placed there by Donald Trump’s insistence that Canada really ought to be an American state. Answering it is urgent for Prime Minister Mark Carney, the election winner. If commissioned to do an economic feasibility study of Canada, a consultant might well end up agreeing...