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 Rita Trichur.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s monetary-policy monkeyshines are plumbing new depths. Mr. Trump has spent months calling Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell every name in the book, including “clown,” “nincompoop” and “major loser.” Now, his Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, is undermining Mr. Powell by stirring speculation about his possible successor.
Canada’s productivity problem starts at the top – the ever-declining number of corporate head offices that call this country home. Many Canadian companies have either relocated their corporate headquarters to the United States or mused about making such a move. The list includes Brookfield Asset Management Ltd., which shifted its head office to New York, and Barrick Gold Corp., which...
Donald Trump is right about one thing: “Kamala Harris is Joe Biden 2.0.″ Don’t worry: I am not becoming a MAGA-phile. But Mr. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, is on to something – at least where Ms. Harris’s economic and business record is concerned. Harris hoopla is in full swing now that Mr. Biden has dropped his re-election bid, and...
Canada is fighting financial crime in fits and starts. The federal government conveyed this week that money laundering, terrorist financing and evasion of sanctions are “real threats” that harm the “integrity of our financial system and have real costs for the Canadian economy.” That’s why it was disappointing the fall economic statement kicked the can down the road on taking...
The economy is in a funk – and, increasingly, so are we. With inflation eroding our paycheques and “technical recession” talk in the air, consumers have cut back on discretionary spending such as restaurant meals and travel in recent months, according to RBC Economics.