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rmacculloch
Jul 29, 20242 min read
National-ACT-NZ First's Pathetic Recall of Ghosts Exhumed from the Past to Roll out Failed Ideas. No wonder Young Kiwis either leave or vote Green.
If you worked for John Key's government & retired, here's the deal: keep claiming the pension (like Peter Gluckman, Murray McCully,...
rmacculloch
Jul 26, 20242 min read
Robertson's First Task as VC of Otago University: stop competition & defund doctors by lobbying in Wellington to prevent Waikato getting NZ's third medical school
Former Finance Minister Grant Robertson officially became the Vice Chancellor of Otago this past 1 July. No longer does he need worry...
rmacculloch
Jul 25, 20242 min read
Don't despair. NZ has the world's best central bank, best universities, best international airport and more. How do we know? Because they told us so.
Yes, we're pretty much top of the pops. Ever since Jacinda Ardern & Chris Hipkins declared we beat the world at fighting Covid and...
rmacculloch
Jul 25, 20244 min read
The World's Media Reports Horrific Headlines about NZ quoting numbers from the Royal Commission into Abuse that its own consultants told it "may never be known with any degree of precision".
A most awful, terrible report by a Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care in NZ from 1950 to 2019 has just been released. The PM...
rmacculloch
Jul 23, 20242 min read
NZ's Health Woes Have Nothing to do with Shifting the Deck Chairs, Bringing Back John Key's Mate, 70 yr old Lester Levy, to run things.
Surprisingly, although age has figured in the American election campaign, forcing President Biden out of the race, one seldom reads about...
rmacculloch
Jul 22, 20242 min read
God Save New Zealand from Lawyers
For the past 40 years, what do US Democratic Presidents have in common? They have all been lawyers. Bill Clinton went to Yale Law School....
rmacculloch
Jul 12, 20242 min read
Should a Key Member of the RBNZ's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) not Turn Up to Set the OCR (During School Holidays)?
Yes, its school holidays at present. The Reserve Bank's MPC meets only several times a year to do the hugely important task of setting...
rmacculloch
Jul 9, 20243 min read
Thank goodness we have one MP, Paul Goldsmith, who Stands up for Property Rights in NZ. Shame on the ACT Party & the Tax Payers Union for not doing so.
The National Party is implementing new legislation, led by Media & Comms Minister, Paul Goldsmith, which means giant tech digital...
rmacculloch
Jul 9, 20242 min read
The Abject Failure of NZ Ministers who became company directors after leaving Parliament and a reason why (its who you know in the zoo).
Synlait Ltd, the milk producer, is experiencing a collapsing share-price. Who has been one of its Directors for the past 10 years? Former...
rmacculloch
Jul 6, 20242 min read
Don't Bet Against NZ. We have the 4th highest no. of space launches in the world (after US, Russia & China).
Amongst the doom & gloom, its time for uplifting news. Isn't it extraordinary NZ now ranks as having the 4th highest number of space...
rmacculloch
Jul 4, 20243 min read
Has ANZ Bank Become NZ's Very Own Colonial-Style East India Company?
Who owns ANZ Bank? It may surprise you. Despite having "NZ" in its name, it has next to nothing to do with New Zealand. Geographically,...
rmacculloch
Jul 3, 20243 min read
1st Year Performance Review: Luxon is a good team leader & people manager, but not a "PM" who's designing rules & incentives to improve the nation's efficiency and fairness, which is his KPI.
A political leader is a person who has the power to change the rules & laws that govern our lives. A person who sets the rules of the...
rmacculloch
Jul 2, 20241 min read
What will Kiwis do when Newshub ends this week?
When David Letterman retired after doing late night comedy TV for 32 years, he asked a group of his comedian friends to come on his last...
rmacculloch
Jul 2, 20242 min read
Can anyone understand the Chancellor of AUT (and former Chair of Health NZ) Rob Campbell's explanations as to how monetary policy works?
The Chancellor of the Auckland University of Technology (and former Chair of Health NZ) is becoming a prolific writer, explaining to all...
rmacculloch
Jul 1, 20241 min read
Are two of NZ's Universities creating fake news in a quest for bucks? If so, then our society really is in trouble.
The word University has in it the Latin word, "veritas", meaning the truth. In an age of bias & fake news promulgated by Main Stream &...
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