I spoke awhile ago with the partner of a former Prime Minister of NZ, who takes an interest in such matters, and they expressed dismay as...

Why do people mistrust politicians? Could it be how they play with words? In the wake of awful headlines on violent crime and the murder...

Seems it is not so much high income earners that are unhappy with the Labour Party, but low and middle income earners whose living...

“Inflation is nobody’s friend,” Governor Orr told the Reserve Bank press conference this afternoon. Gosh maybe he could find some time to...

So here it is and it's very psychological. The Reserve Bank has been profoundly stung by criticism (see my NZ Herald article) that it...

How many people are there in NZ - given there were 24,068 Covid cases reported last week - who want lockdowns to be implemented with...

National leader Christopher Luxon received a blasting from the Prime Minister yesterday for saying to parents, "you chose to have these...

How many of our Members of Parliament have explained that the best way to reduce youth crime is to implement policies that promote strong...

Former Labour Minister & ACT President, Richard Prebble's 1996 book, "I've Been Thinking" has such a great title, I can't resist...

Yesterday the Nats proposed sending young offenders to military-style boot camps. Labour reacted with anger, slamming the proposal,...

No wonder the mainstream media is driving us nuts. The National Business Review stated today that "Māori households are getting poorer"....

As we noted several months ago, the world was treated to words of economic wisdom from our Kiwi monetary authorities in 2021, as reported...

Business Desk is running a series on our health-care sector. In my opinion, comments from Health Minister Andrew Little reveal why he is...

Intro: As beliefs in this country fall into three increasingly equal sized and competing parts, building a unifying system is set to...

I just submitted an "Opinion Piece" to the Herald - it describes the fragmentation of beliefs in Kiwi society which is going to make...

I say that because awhile ago I had an email exchange with Quigley in early 2020 over the fact that the Reserve Bank repeatedly stated...

The Herald is running a series about how to rebuild a "New" New Zealand, post-pandemic. So where's it currently headed? Here's a list of...

How do we know that the Finance Minister has shredded the reputation of the RBNZ? By the fact the headlines today say that the Opposition...

The PM says that big bank profits raise questions about their "social license to operate". However, it was her Central Bank that...

Before the main stream media knew about it, DownToEarth Kiwi told you a couple of days ago that Finance Minister Grant Robertson would...