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rmacculloch
Sep 29, 20242 min read
The Prize for the (only) Kiwi billionaire who's widely read, doesn't only think about money & isn't afraid to put his views into writing goes to .. Bob Jones.
Its not easy to keep up with the Joneses, especially during a cost-of-living crisis. At 84 years old, Sir Bob Jones is more interested in...
rmacculloch
Sep 28, 20242 min read
Technical Econ Note: Does the "Gross" in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) explain the degradation of NZ's assets?
It's gradually dawning on Kiwis that the cost of fixing NZ's depleted infrastructure is fast becoming unmanageable. The run-down...
rmacculloch
Sep 27, 20242 min read
Proof that NZ's Reserve Bank has Inflicted Unnecessary Pain up and down the Nation.
In the past few hours, it has been stated that the US economy grew at a solid 3% rate last quarter, as given in the American...
rmacculloch
Sep 26, 20243 min read
Jobs for the Boys: why has the Police Commissioner been chosen to head the Social Investment Agency when he doesn't have the required skills?
It has been announced that the Police Commissioner has been chosen to head the Finance Minister Nicola Willis' Social Investment Agency...
rmacculloch
Sep 25, 20242 min read
Former PM Ardern & Opposition Leader Hipkins Legacy: Collapsing Trust in NZ Education, Parliament, Courts, Heath-care, Police & Media to all-time lows.
The evidence is out. Stats NZ today released survey data measuring Trust in NZ's key institutions. The previous Labour government ended...
rmacculloch
Sep 25, 20242 min read
The Public Services Association Union is Causing Public Services in NZ to Collapse, Nurses, Teachers & Police to Leave for Australia & mass unemployment in Wellington.
The working-from-home, sometimes called "remote working", debate has heated up in Wellington with the Prime Minister and Finance Minister...
rmacculloch
Sep 23, 20242 min read
Should Crown Prosecutions at the Ministry of Justice be prosecuted for wasting millions of taxpayer dollars on a doomed "murder" trial? And sued for defamation?
Since public comments on active trials run the risk of biasing juries, reporting on cases is restricted. Although this Blog was written...
rmacculloch
Sep 23, 20242 min read
Auckland Airport wants you to miss your flight - because its money ticket is shopping and malls.
Traffic jams to the airport caused mass panic in Auckland over the weekend as fliers struggled to get to their flights because a huge new...
rmacculloch
Sep 22, 20243 min read
The World Bank confirms 150 Developing Nations are on Track to overtake NZ, as a succession of National and Labour governments have turned NZ into one of the planet's worst performing economies
If there is one graph that symbolizes the relative economic decline of NZ, then I believe it is the one below. It measures NZ GDP per...
rmacculloch
Sep 21, 20242 min read
Are the reasons behind the Cook Straight Ferry Debacle at the Root of NZ's Cost of Living Crisis?
Is State ownership, on top of the lawyers & accountants who've been running KiwiRail (being the just-resigned Chair & current CEO, who...
rmacculloch
Sep 19, 20243 min read
The Fate of NZ's Entire Health System has been tied to Auckland University of Technology's Chancellor and now an Auckland University of Technology Professor
Health NZ is the new centralized public health-care monolith. Its Chair is charged with running our entire health system, which makes...
rmacculloch
Sep 18, 20242 min read
The US Moves closer to NZ's Pharmac Model as its Medicare Health System starts negotiating drug prices with Pharmaceutical companies
The Biden administration has announced that the US government's Medicare public health program is negotiating discounts with...
rmacculloch
Sep 17, 20241 min read
Has Former PM Ardern Become NZ's Single Biggest Individual Emitter of Greenhouse Gases?
I ts impossible to keep up with former PM Ardern's emissions of Greenhouse Gases. Where has she travelled on carbon-dumping-into-the-atmo...
rmacculloch
Sep 16, 20242 min read
Opposition Leader Hipkins and Former PM Ardern repeatedly said we beat the world on Covid. Our World In Data Says the World is Beating Us.
Although the propaganda exercise that former Covid Minister Chris Hipkins and Former PM Ardern waged for years, and still do, in cahoots...
rmacculloch
Sep 15, 20242 min read
NZ Health & UK National Health Service are the same model, temples to a dead religion. France knows better.
The UK's National Health System was set up around a decade after New Zealand's one was established in 1938. It largely copied its former...
rmacculloch
Sep 14, 20242 min read
Is NZ's Unprincipled Parliament the True Reason why Productivity Growth has Collapsed?
NZ's Parliament calls itself our "House of Representatives". That's an empty description, given we now have a sitting Member who ran on...
rmacculloch
Sep 12, 20245 min read
Treaty of Waitangi legal "experts", in particular judges, have misunderstood its economic rationale, endangering national prosperity in the process.
The underlying aim of the Treaty of Waitangi, at least in economic terms, was to promote a higher standard of living for Māori and non-...
rmacculloch
Sep 10, 20242 min read
Why haven't most of Labour's Covid "Fast Track Consenting" 2020 Act projects not even been started by 2024? If that's fast, what's slow?
The government lists all projects that applied to get the economy booming in the pandemic era under its hilarious "Covid Fast Track...
rmacculloch
Sep 8, 20242 min read
Labour Leader & Former Education Minister Hipkins must be held to account for his maths mistakes & dishonesty about the economic implications of population ageing
In an interview with TVNZ's Jack Tame, Labour's Chris Hipkins mislead Tame & five million New Zealanders about the economic implications...
rmacculloch
Sep 6, 20242 min read
Here's the Supermarket Duopoly Defamation Threat Letter written by Chapman Tripp naming Auckland University Economist Tim Hazeldine.
Extraordinarily, a legal letter has been sent by law firm Chapman Tripp on behalf of its client, Foodstuffs North Island, to Auckland...
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