OneNews goes rogue. Labels Peters and Seymour "populist". Meanwhile Luxon's listed alongside Putin!?
Today OneNews reports, not as opinion, but as "fact", the following: "Should the final count erode their slim majority, waiting in the...
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rmacculloch
Oct 30, 20232 min read
Does our New Government want to take us back to 1989?
This blog disagrees with ACT leader's David Seymour's views on the Reserve Bank. Has he just come in fresh from a talk with Don Brash?...
rmacculloch
Oct 26, 20231 min read
Former NZ PM Helen Clark says Israel is on a "crusade".
Yesterday former Prime Minister Helen Clark, who stood for UN Secretary General in 2016, refers to Israel as carrying out "this crusade"...
rmacculloch
Oct 26, 20232 min read
Will Chief Executive Officer Chris Luxon successfully transition into Prime Minister Chris Luxon?
Newshub and other Mainstream Media outlets are back trying to brew up trouble for the incoming PM - the angle they seem to be developing...
rmacculloch
Oct 25, 20234 min read
In a New World, New Thinking is Required
After boycotting the Herald for awhile, I wrote an Opinion for them today. Coincidentally, the theme is remarkably similar to Richard...
rmacculloch
Oct 24, 20232 min read
The NZ Election was Bought by the Rich, my foot: our Mainstream Media Tries to Undermine Democracy
A leading NZ Herald columnist today assigns blame for Labour's election loss. He claims, amongst other reasons, that the election was...
rmacculloch
Oct 19, 20231 min read
DownToEarth.Kiwi has been vindicated on monetary policy and RBNZ Governor Orr has been proved wrong
After printing $50 billion & unnecessarily inflating our economy, the RBNZ Governor panicked, telling a Parliamentary Select Committee...
rmacculloch
Oct 18, 20232 min read
Is Bryce Edward's article on Lobbying in NZ the reason Aucklanders lost faith in Wellington?
American Senator Jon Tester, who has just introduced the Close the Revolving Door Act, says “I came to the Senate to fight for working...
rmacculloch
Oct 17, 20231 min read
The RBNZ Paid its "Exec Leadership Team" $5.2 million (they're just 10 of them, most non-economists)
Forget the cost-of-living-crisis. That's not something experienced in Wellington by public sector executives. The Reserve Bank's Annual...
rmacculloch
Oct 17, 20232 min read
Does New Zealand's Mainstream Media not Respect the Election Result?
The front page the NZ Herald is running today has this headline and this photo: What Get's Axed Under the National-Led Government? Is...
rmacculloch
Oct 16, 20232 min read
Economic Message to National: Don't do a "Mother of all Budgets" or you will Ruthanize your party
Many folks in the country have never forgiven the Nats, under Jim Bolger, for cutting benefits in the early 1990s, as the economy was...
rmacculloch
Oct 16, 20231 min read
Even in Defeat, PM Hipkins Wields out Fake Statistics
The PM's states at 3 minutes 50 seconds into his Election Concession Speech (with a link below) that NZ "recorded the lowest number of...
rmacculloch
Oct 16, 20232 min read
The New Government's First "Quick Win" Top Priority
Economists divide government intervention into two main areas Taxation and spending The regulatory state The regulatory state is about...
rmacculloch
Oct 14, 20232 min read
The Boy from Rotorua who Changed the World. How? We Don't Know Yet.
Forget fancy pants folks growing up in posh suburbs in the likes of London, New York, Shanghai, Tokyo or Dubai. People who change the...
rmacculloch
Oct 13, 20232 min read
For Goodness Sakes, Some People You Just Can't Help
For an entire week, this Blog has been focused on one issue - the false claim made by the PM that NZ's GDP growth rate is better "than...
rmacculloch
Oct 11, 20232 min read
NZ Media spins the IMF GDP figures in Labour's favor and grossly misleads Kiwis a day before voting
Probably because some reporters receive this Blog, Newshub today picked up on the IMF 's latest GDP growth figures. This is how they...
rmacculloch
Oct 11, 20231 min read
Where's our media? Where are the IMF GDP figures out yesterday proving Hipkin's fabricated NZs rank?
On the front pages of the UK Times today it reports the latest IMF growth figures that came out yesterday, on 10th October. Just a few...
rmacculloch
Oct 9, 20231 min read
Did the PM make up NZ's 2nd-in-world Quarterly GDP growth ranking that he used on Hosking's ZB show?
If you watch Mike Hoskings interview with Prime Minister Chris Hipkins, the PM clearly "agrees" with Hoskings that NZ's 2023 Quarter 2...
rmacculloch
Oct 7, 20231 min read
Finance Minister Robertson makes a false declaration about the Grocery Commissioner's Powers
In a debate with National Party Finance Spokeswoman Nic Willis, Finance Minister Grant Robertson tried explaining why previously he...
rmacculloch
Oct 4, 20232 min read
A callous RBNZ Blames Migrants for Inflation & says only "some" are stressed by high interest rates
In the Minutes of the Reserve Bank's Monetary Policy Committee released today, members said this about immigrants: "Upside surprises to,...
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