Today the Herald jumped to the government's defense by running an article with the headline, "The Full, Inside Story of NZ's Vaccine...

Stuff News ran an article back in March with the headline, "Economic forecasting's spectacular Covid failure". It stated that, "Amid...

I wrote an article for the NBR on for-profit education businesses last week. You can read it either here, https://www.nbr.co.nz/node/2318...

In a blog post in August 2020, we raised concerns about the Reserve Bank's Quantitative Easing (QE) Program, which it had just begun to...

Grant Robertson's 2021 Budget Speech, delivered just a few months ago, contained the following line, telling the workers of NZ how...

The Times in the UK reports that, "The boss of one of the world’s largest consumer goods companies has warned shoppers they face a “once...

The newspapers are reporting today how our health-care system could easily become quickly overwhelmed should virus cases soar. In...

Back in September we wrote a blog on the "rules vs discretion" policy debate. Proponents of rules-based approaches argue they are...

In a recent rambling speech given on 21 September, the Deputy Governor of the RBNZ suggested that only small increments in the OCR were...

Yesterday inflation rose to a little under 5%, a ten year high. We've long been forecasting sharply increasing inflation & interest...

Back in April of this year, we predicted on this Blog that vaccine hesitancy may become a significant issue for NZ in the ensuing months....

The minimum wage debate has been highly controversial in this country, like many others. Especially since our Labour government hiked the...

It has been announced that Rob Campbell has been appointed as Chair of Health NZ to help chart the future of our health system. He's a...

An old acquaintance of mine in the UK, Paul Klemperer, who is the world's leading auction theorist, and was the principal designer of...

One of the primary features of "populism" is a distaste of elites, which often includes academics and intellectuals. On that note, the...

Normally we wouldn't dwell on an issue like our sluggish vaccine roll-out. But it's an ongoing story since our government has gone to...

Whilst our nation has bet its future on the Pfizer vaccine to help us move forward with our lives, the PM just delivered a speech at the...

Today inflation hit a near ten year high and is forecast to go higher still, to above 4%. As a result, the Reserve Bank of NZ hiked the...

The slide down our "lock-down" levels has led to a most extraordinary & unexpected comparison with the demise of the Soviet Union. Before...

Newsroom, a media outlet that lists as its "partners" the likes of Bell Gully, Universities of Auckland, Otago and Victoria, is running a...