Our Great Economic Blame Game
The Herald ran my critique of National's Five Point Plan for our economy - and then turned around and rejected the one I wrote about...
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rmacculloch
- Feb 27
- 1 min
Newsflash: PM Hipkins announces how to pay for the hurricane - Tax the Poor
PM Hipkins must have had a brain wave the past week - he stumbled in his dreams on a way to help pay for the hurricane which he announced...
rmacculloch
- Feb 27
- 1 min
The NZ Herald published my economics critique of National and refused to publish the one of Labour
Last month, I sent an article to the NZ Herald, checked over by the University's media team, critiquing National Leader Luxon's five...
rmacculloch
- Feb 22
- 1 min
Welcome Back to the Reserve Bank OCR Comedy Show
In the aftermath of the Christchurch Earthquake, the RBNZ went and cut the OCR by 50 basis points in early 2011. Here's why: “We have...
rmacculloch
- Feb 20
- 1 min
Message to Chris Luxon: Do you know the difference between unemployment insurance & wage subsidies?
To help those suffering from Cyclone Gabriel's impact, National's Leader Chris Luxon "backs a wage subsidy as well as looser immigration...
rmacculloch
- Feb 20
- 2 min
Labour want YOUR vote for Disasters (viruses, hurricanes, you name them)
It's official. Labour has politicized hurricane Gabriel, blaming it on Climate Change. They're even pontificating about policy responses...
rmacculloch
- Feb 18
- 1 min
What are the Political Views of our Students' Teachers?
In the United States, according to the New York Times, about 60 percent of undergraduate teaching faculty identify as liberal or far...
rmacculloch
- Feb 17
- 1 min
The Finance Minister plays Politics with a Natural Disaster as bodies are still being found
The Herald reports that the Minister of Finance, who you would have thought should be focused on allocating scarce resources in an...
rmacculloch
- Feb 16
- 2 min
On President Obama's criteria, PM Hipkins ended the dreams of countless poor Kiwi school children
It was the new NZ Prime Minister, Chris Hipkins, that ended Charter Schools in this country in his capacity as Minister of Education....
rmacculloch
- Feb 14
- 2 min
PM Hipkins has declared himself on economics: vested interests and lobby groups win the day
It would probably be fair to say that most decent, serious economists, if asked to comment on the various policies of the Kiwi Labour...
rmacculloch
- Feb 10
- 2 min
Did Prime Minister Hipkin's Maiden Speech in Parliament copy Bobby Kennedy's?
If one was marking PM Hipkins maiden speech in Parliament in 2008 for originality, I'd give it 3 out of 10. Why? When it comes to core...
rmacculloch
- Feb 3
- 1 min
Who's 'abysmal'? Not the Mayor. It's the Kiwi mainstream media that just revealed IT runs the nation
Today, on Newshub's AM show, Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown was slammed for his "communication catastrophe during the devastating Auckland...
rmacculloch
- Feb 2
- 1 min
DownToEarth Kiwi is a Better OCR Predictor than the Chief Economists at all this country's Big Banks
I reported last December on this blog that: "In a bunch of radio interviews these past weeks, I've argued that the RBNZ should not have...
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