Kiwis face the biggest drop in living standards since the 1970s (can the NZ Treasury plse confirm?)
The above headline is surely one to rattle our government, which is probably why it is desperately keen to keep it out of the mainstream...
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rmacculloch
- Mar 24, 2022
- 4 min
Wellington Hates Economists (Free Enterprise will suffer)
Below is my opinion piece for the National Business Review this week, https://www.nbr.co.nz/node/233602: A new style of bureaucrat is...
rmacculloch
- Mar 20, 2022
- 2 min
Labour's Spin Machine reaches new heights - to the point it risks being labelled "fake news"
In a world where we've mostly all become fed up with "communications teams" spinning and "shaping the narrative", our government is...
rmacculloch
- Mar 17, 2022
- 2 min
Tax Russian imports to NZ - don't make them illegal.
Our Parliament has unanimously passed the historic “Russia Sanctions Act" which provides a broad legal framework enabling NZ to impose...
rmacculloch
- Mar 16, 2022
- 1 min
BIG OIL must just LOVE Kiwi PM Ardern
The Kiwi Prime Minister just got jumped into slashing fuel taxes to relieve the "cost-of-living crisis". Within a day of doing so, oil...
rmacculloch
- Mar 16, 2022
- 2 min
Cutting gasoline taxes was a strategic mistake for Labour
It seems that the primary purpose of the PM's fuel tax cut was for a quick news headline that attracted positive PR. It was driven by...
rmacculloch
- Mar 14, 2022
- 3 min
The Cost of Living Crisis: does it reflect moral bankruptcy at the heart of Labour and National?
PM Ardern has just announced the government is cutting the excise tax on fuel as a result of - wait for it - not the "cost-of-living...
rmacculloch
- Mar 10, 2022
- 2 min
Economic & Political Forecasts for 2023
Forecasting anything in economics, let alone, politics is fraught with difficulty. Its a fools game. But that's not going to stop us....
rmacculloch
- Mar 10, 2022
- 2 min
Were the Covid academic expert commentators under Labour's influence?
Kate McNamara reports in the NZ Herald today that an Official Information Request (OIA) has found that "a specially chosen group of Covid...
rmacculloch
- Mar 8, 2022
- 1 min
Radio Interview on the National Party's Economic "Strategy" (to the extent there is one)
Below is a link to a radio interview which I did with Christina Huang who's studying for a BA degree at Auckland University. It's called...
rmacculloch
- Mar 7, 2022
- 1 min
Luxon's "State of the Nation" Speech
Judged on purely political terms, National Party leader Luxon's recent speech (link below) may have been a success. It appeared mainly...
rmacculloch
- Mar 2, 2022
- 1 min
"We will provoke the collapse of the Russian economy", says France
"We will provoke the collapse of the Russian economy," French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told a local news channel on Tuesday....
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