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rmacculloch
Aug 28, 20242 min read
The Labour Party Leader's Sad Plan for NZ is a copy of the UK Prime Minister's. Except with a difference: Chris Hipkins wants NZ to fail.
The Leader of the Labour Party, Chris Hipkins, has proved he nicely fits the joke about the dog that chases cars - what does it do when...
rmacculloch
Aug 26, 20243 min read
The National-NZ First "Fast Track Bill" Fiasco: Reply to DownToEarth.Kiwi from David Parker, former Minister of Environment & Attorney General
"Re your latest blog, you are in my respectful opinion half right. When I was Minister for the Environment I introduced fast track panels...
rmacculloch
Aug 26, 20242 min read
Fast Track Approvals Bill: Chris Bishop & Shane Jones Took a Good Idea & Turned it into a Dog's Breakfast.
To deal with the proliferation of regulation & red-tape in NZ, which means you can barely go to the bathroom without getting permission,...
rmacculloch
Aug 24, 20242 min read
The ANZ Bank is NZ's own Colonial East India Company, indistinguishable from the government, shipping the gold bounty away to the motherland.
Who was sitting next to Prime Minister Luxon on NZ's Airforce One, which conked out and got replaced by Air NZ One, on his trade-trip to...
rmacculloch
Aug 22, 20242 min read
Seymour's Ministry of Regulation will be ACT's greatest legacy - Radio NZ is talking garbage trying to paint it as a money wasting hypocrisy
What has been the one of the biggest drags on NZ's economic performance the past decade? Regulation and red-tape whose costs way exceed...
rmacculloch
Aug 21, 20242 min read
Wasted "Minutes": Newstalk ZBs Mike Hosking should stick to being a DJ. When he does economics, its empty status-quo stuff.
Mike Hosking has unhelpfully entered the "how-to-get-more-competition-in-banking" debate, but gets it all wrong in his "Mike's Minute"...
rmacculloch
Aug 21, 20243 min read
How to Break NZ's Big Bank Oligopoly right here, right now, in one line, at no cost to tax-payers (and forget the Commerce Commission).
Every day Kiwis are ripped off by the Big Banks. Every day you use Pay Wave the Banks pinch money out of your account. That's how banks...
rmacculloch
Aug 19, 20243 min read
Former Labour PM's Clark and Ardern wrecked NZ's Health System: they should be held accountable for the lives that have been lost
Enough is enough. Former PMs Helen Clark and Jacinda Ardern should come clean about how they were the Chief Architects of the...
rmacculloch
Aug 17, 20241 min read
Why does the Helen Clark Foundation say it is "non-partisan" when it is not non-partisan? Why does it quietly appear to be taking Taxpayer Subsidies when it is really a Labour think tank?
The Helen Clark Foundation is a Charitable Trust, registered by the Charities Commission. It proudly proclaims, "We are an independent,...
rmacculloch
Aug 16, 20242 min read
Here's Proof that Governor Orr Mislead Parliament's Finance & Expenditure Committee about the OCR Cut.
Yesterday there was a commotion about the unexpected cut in interest rates by the Reserve Bank. It marked a departure from the Bank’s...
rmacculloch
Aug 15, 20242 min read
The Reserve Bank throws truth out the window: its Monetary Policy Statement would make a Propaganda Chief from a Third World Dictatorship Blush
New Zealand is the only country in the world I know of in the midst of what is now shaping up to be a "triple dip recession". GDP growth...
rmacculloch
Aug 13, 20243 min read
The National Party's Adviser / Think Tank, the NZ Initiative, comes out as Pro-Monopoly, Anti-Consumer. Are the Nats Scheming Against Regular Kiwis?
The primary reason on the economic front that National was elected was to reduce the cost-of-living. How is it doing? The Nats are...
rmacculloch
Aug 11, 20241 min read
NZ's Productivity Growth, measured in terms of output of Olympic Medals, is Astonishing.
In the 1924 Paris Olympics, New Zealand won one bronze medal in total. It was in athletics for the 100m by Arthur Porritt. The race was...
rmacculloch
Aug 9, 20242 min read
Foodstuffs win a huge victory on behalf of all Monopolies in NZ. They will now wage total war on customers. Down-right anti-competitive behavior is rewarded by imposing just tiny fines.
Many years ago a chap from a well-known business family in NZ told me that he'd found out what the person was making who owned the...
rmacculloch
Aug 9, 20242 min read
Hang on Nat. Party Pollster Farrar. Ngāi Tahu's receipt of funds from Meridien is not "Greenmail" or "Rent-seeking". Its an efficient Coasian Bargain loved by the free market Chicago School.
The right-wing in NZ should refrain from twisting facts when it comes to patronizing lines explaining to voters how economics works....
rmacculloch
Aug 8, 20242 min read
NZ's Biggest Hypocrite? (Former) Green Party Leader James Shaw, who sits on Air NZ's "Sustainability Panel", Greenwashes the airline, as its Emissions Targets are Dumped into the atmosphere.
Air NZ is now led by a chap who used to work at Walmart. But its pricing on domestic routes is anything like the budget basement prices...
rmacculloch
Aug 7, 20241 min read
NZ's Monty Python Reserve Bank Governor promised to "engineer a recession" to kill inflation. Turns out he engineered three. Apologies for wrecking lives & livelihoods in the process.
There is carnage on the high street with huge numbers of retailers and restaurants closing. Many in business are doing it tough right...
rmacculloch
Aug 7, 20242 min read
State Services' Hilarious Advertisement for CEO of the NZ Treasury: your Job Description is to "turn around" NZ.
The Labour Party stuffed up the country for six years. Now the Nats have thrown into the "too hard basket" matters like legislation to...
rmacculloch
Aug 6, 20242 min read
Did a Christchurch Environment Judge called Prudence just end NZ's Dreams of higher tech-based productivity growth that would've fixed our health system & ended poverty?
New Zealand citizen, Peter Thiel, who is one of the world's richest men, and business associate of Elon Musk, has had his house...
rmacculloch
Aug 2, 20242 min read
More Layers of Management Kick in under National as the Frontline of NZ's Health System is wiped - not a single Doctor is Appointed to Lead a Region
The National Party's Monty Python health (non) reform is a comedy. In order to cut layers of management, new layers are being introduced....
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