The Health Minister has wrecked our health-care system. Here's why.
Why is our health-care system in decline? The primary reason is that it is inefficient and can't cope with the demands of our ageing...
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rmacculloch
- Oct 26, 2022
- 1 min
Don't bother to read the mainstream media for economic commentary
Newshub has "explained" to millions of Kiwis today the following: "The first thing to understand is what is actually causing inflation....
rmacculloch
- Oct 25, 2022
- 2 min
Robertson contradicts Treasury and blames overseas factors to cover up the truth on health-care
Newshub report that "Acting PM Grant Robertson defends NZ's health system after string of deaths amid severe staffing issues". His...
rmacculloch
- Oct 20, 2022
- 2 min
PM misreports child poverty. Now 4,000 children in Emergency Housing are called a "margin of error".
Newshub are running a front page story with this headline: Prime Minister's office apologizes for misleading comments about NZ's child...
rmacculloch
- Oct 19, 2022
- 3 min
Ardern & Luxon debating the UK has shown both their limitations: neither are supply-side reformers
Prime Minister Ardern has been going after the Leader of the National Party, Chris Luxon, in Parliament, claiming his policy of cutting...
rmacculloch
- Oct 19, 2022
- 2 min
Does Sir John Key know how high inequality is in China compared to the West?
Sir John Key has made a bizarre comment about inequality. Maybe bizarre is a poor choice of words, since it's just plain wrong. Newshub...
rmacculloch
- Oct 18, 2022
- 2 min
The latest inflation data proves the government was misleading us by blaming Putin & global factors
Finance Minister Robertson has repeatedly blamed the Russian invasion of Ukraine and other "global" factors for NZ's high inflation rate....
rmacculloch
- Oct 17, 2022
- 1 min
How our RBNZ screwed up, and is still screwing up, in the succinct words of Milton Friedman
Former Chair of the US President's Council of Economic Advisers and Harvard Professor Greg Mankiw concurs with those of us in NZ who have...
rmacculloch
- Oct 14, 2022
- 3 min
Who says the Kiwi Media are not outrageously biased when it comes to reporting on inequality?
Newshub went and screamed this headline during the week: Exclusive: NZ ranked 136th in world on fair wealth distribution leading to call...
rmacculloch
- Oct 12, 2022
- 2 min
Record high staff turnover at the RBNZ: why can't it stop the endless spin, the endless propaganda?
The NZ Herald report today: Staff turnover at the Reserve Bank hit a record high of 21.7 per cent in the year to June .. More than one in...
rmacculloch
- Oct 5, 2022
- 2 min
The RBNZ threw gas on the inflation fire and now throws freezing water over the nation to put it out
Having poured gasoline on the inflationary fire for most of 2021, printing money and keeping the Cash Rate close to zero, now the Reserve...
rmacculloch
- Oct 4, 2022
- 2 min
National and Labour Economic Policy summed up in a few lines
A row has blown up between our two major parties, with Labour accusing the Nats of proposing similar policies to the Tories in the UK,...
rmacculloch
- Oct 1, 2022
- 1 min
Why the RBNZ is talking nonsense when it comes to forecasting inflation & the state of our economy
The problem with the Reserve Bank's optimistic forecasts about inflation dropping away is as follows: insisting overseas factors, like...
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