Depression Election 2023: a State of the Nation Essay
I just wrote this Opinion Piece for the National Business Review - it's about putting an historical perspective on NZ's present...
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rmacculloch
- Jul 28, 2022
- 1 min
How the Kiwi government made monopolies stronger
Here are just a couple of ways the Kiwi government greatly enhanced monopolies and duopolies the past few years: Exhibit A Although...
rmacculloch
- Jul 27, 2022
- 3 min
No Finance Minister Robertson = you are the one who does Hindsight Economics
The Finance Minister responded to the NZ Initiative report released yesterday, called "How Central Bank Mistakes after 2019 led to...
rmacculloch
- Jul 26, 2022
- 2 min
The RBNZ is now a Political Party, not a Central Bank
In an extraordinary powerful report published today by the NZ Initiative, called "How Central Bank Mistakes after 2019 led to Inflation",...
rmacculloch
- Jul 25, 2022
- 2 min
The NZ Herald confuses Inequality with Poverty
One of the lead articles in the Herald today, entitled "Beggars Belief: Pursuing NZ's Richest Earners - would a wealth tax work?" opens...
rmacculloch
- Jul 25, 2022
- 2 min
Feeding the Media: Business Lobbies, Academics and Think Tanks
It has emerged that the taxi company, Uber, waged a campaign to influence positive media stories about itself. The UK Guardian newspaper...
rmacculloch
- Jul 22, 2022
- 2 min
Remarkable: New Zealand now has the world's highest weekly death toll per capita from Coronavirus
This past week NZ has been recorded by Our World in Data, which is run by a research team at the University of Oxford, as having the...
rmacculloch
- Jul 22, 2022
- 3 min
The Costs of Inflation & Unemployment Compared
Kiwi politicians famously announced a "go hard - go early" approach to coronavirus in 2020-21. However, when it came to containing...
rmacculloch
- Jul 8, 2022
- 1 min
The Nats & Labour cannot solve NZ's cost-of-living problems since both have rejected neoliberalism.
It pays to reflect on an interview PM Ardern gave to Stuff in 2017 (at that time she was opposition leader) which was titled "Ardern says...
rmacculloch
- Jul 6, 2022
- 2 min
NZ currently has one of the highest weekly Covid death rates in the world
According to Our World in Data, NZ currently has the 6th highest weekly Covid death rate (out of 211 countries). Four of the five...
rmacculloch
- Jul 6, 2022
- 1 min
What Institution do Kiwis Distrust the Least?
Statistics NZ released its' Well-being Statistics yesterday. Look what comes bottom, by a long way: the Media. Average rating of selected...
rmacculloch
- Jul 5, 2022
- 2 min
NZ should never do an EU-style agreement with Oz says Mitchell Palmer
The Mont Pelerin Society's International 2022 Hayek Essay Contest has just announced the winners of their Friedrich A. Hayek Fellowships....
rmacculloch
- Jul 4, 2022
- 2 min
The Economics of the "Barriers-to-Entry" Fletcher Gib Board Monopoly
One of NZ's most experienced and decorated business reporters, Tim Hunter at the National Business Review writes: "Fletcher, meanwhile,...
rmacculloch
- Jul 1, 2022
- 1 min
So Robertson tolerates Financial Conflicts of Interest but has Zero Tolerance of Academic ones?
The media, including the NZ Herald, has been awash with stories about potential financial conflicts-of-interest arising from some of the...
rmacculloch
- Jul 1, 2022
- 4 min
Politicians have sucked the life out of young Kiwis
I wrote an Opinion Piece with the above title for the NZ Herald this week. It is available here: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/robert-mac...
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