rmaccullochAug 31, 20221 minNewsFlash: Inland Revenue Minister David Parker Caves in to the BankersIn the few hours since our last blog, which described how our nation's economic policy has descended into "comedy" as Labour tried to put...
rmaccullochAug 31, 20222 minA Solution to the Kiwi Saver Tax DebacleLabour has attracted a flurry of angry headlines over its just-revealed plans to charge GST on fees paid on KiwiSaver accounts, which...
rmaccullochAug 19, 20222 minThe RBNZ Governor's US Bloomberg interview was highly amusing (for all the wrong reasons)Just over a year ago RBNZ Governor Orr was interviewed by Bloomberg Television & said: "Inflation is a very different beast today than it...
rmaccullochAug 17, 20222 minThe RBNZ's "Summary Record" of its OCR announcement is one big fat political "Non Est Mea Culpa".For a macroeconomist, the Reserve Bank's Press Release of the "Summary Record" of the meeting of its Monetary Policy Committee today,...