Labour Conference 2024: the Party will Support Running on Capital / Asset Taxes in Election 2026.
Traders may be able to make a bit of money out of this Blog. How come? Since Labour obviously have a chance of winning Election 2026 &...
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rmacculloch
Nov 303 min read
Has an Anonymous Political Donor to Schools Sabotaged National, ACT & NZ First? Will Children be Educated Not to Vote for them, as of Next Week?
The State-owned Broadcaster has just announced, "Every high school in NZ is set to receive a copy of a new book about the Treaty of...
rmacculloch
Nov 292 min read
Why the Nats are sweating bricks about the economy.
The previous Reserve Bank Governor, Graeme Wheeler, was an impressive and thoughtful person. He was also decent - each year coming to...
rmacculloch
Nov 291 min read
Royal Covid Commission report says "NZ’s vaccination rollout was slightly slower to get started than in some other countries". And Pigs Fly.
The Australian Commonwealth Government COVID-19 Response Inquiry slammed that country's late "stroll-out" of the vaccine. It meant...
rmacculloch
Nov 281 min read
Oops. The Royal Commission Report on Covid Missed out the Graph of "Confirmed Covid deaths" showing NZ has converged to the world average,
Oh dear. The graph below must have accidently been missed out of the Royal Commission into Covid-19 Report, showing that over time, NZ's...
rmacculloch
Nov 283 min read
The Royal Commission on Covid-19 Report is a Repugnant, Unstructured Mishmash of Disinformation, Dressed up as a Single Source of Truth.
How can Professor Blakely, who is co-author of NZ's Royal Commission Report into Covid, write a report critiquing our government's...
rmacculloch
Nov 283 min read
Is the OCR at the "right" level in New Zealand? A comment from one of our Blog Readers, and a reply.
One of our Blog readers, a top notch Wellington economist called Matthew Williamson, who I trust doesn't mind me writing his name, has...
rmacculloch
Nov 272 min read
The 50 basis point cut in the Official Cash Rate by NZ's Reserve Bank today broke its remit. Truth is, its trying to kick start the economy, not fight inflation.
When National came to power, the Party amended the Reserve Bank of NZ legislation, which had previously instructed the Bank to pursue the...
rmacculloch
Nov 263 min read
Finance Minister Willis Challenges DownToEarth.Kiwi to give her "ideas" about how to Break Monopoly power in the NZ Economy. Here they are.
When interviewed by Heather du Plessis-Allan on Newstalk ZB yesterday , Finance Minister Willis said, "And I'd like to put this out to...
rmacculloch
Nov 252 min read
Finance Minister Willis is Sitting on a Gigantic Fiscal Hole - she's conjured Figures in Budget 2024 that Contradict Treasury's Long Term Fiscal Forecasts.
Should the assertions in this Blog be even broadly correct, Finance Minister Willis has a lot of explaining to do. How come? Well, the...
rmacculloch
Nov 251 min read
Its Official: statistics prove Labour Leader Chris Hipkins, NZ Education Minister from 2017 to 2023, trashed the education of a generation of Kiwis.
The Leader of the Opposition, Labour MP Chris Hipkins, was Education Minister from 2017 to 2023. Over that time the proportion of...
rmacculloch
Nov 252 min read
No wonder Germany has failed: former Chancellor Merkel insults Trump and at the same time reveals she doesn't know what is a property developer.
Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has written a book full of insults about incoming US President Trump. You'd think, given the...
rmacculloch
Nov 243 min read
Does ComCom hate the private sector? It lays criminal charges on OneNZ, but not on Otago University for far worse breaches of the Fair Trading Act.
Monopolies are running riot in NZ. Air NZ, which is majority state owned, for one. Auckland Airport, which is part owned by the Council....
rmacculloch
Nov 232 min read
Mr Prime Minister: Lead, Goddammit. Address the Nation in this time of Crisis. Tell us: Are there Treaty Principles? If so, are they part of NZ's Constitution?
An extraordinary exchange took place on The Platform Radio Station between host Sean Plunket and Deputy PM Winston Peters, who said...
rmacculloch
Nov 222 min read
Its Official: The Royal Society of NZ's Race-Based Funding is a constitutional requirement.
ACTs Treaty Principles debate has clarified a lot of things we never understood before in New Zealand. For example, Kiwi Blog report,...
rmacculloch
Nov 212 min read
NZ Descends into a S*!# Show on the World Stage. MPs Mock Judges. Legal "Royalty" Mock MPs. Other MPs Mock their own Parliament. We're not a serious nation.
Let there be no doubt. NZ has turned into a world laughing stock. A nation without a clue what it stands for - what is in, or out of, its...
rmacculloch
Nov 204 min read
Finance Minister Nicola Willis: A First Year Economic Report Card
National was elected on the promise of fixing the economy. Not talking about it; but to deliver the goods. Not to do a public relations...
rmacculloch
Nov 201 min read
Dame Whina Cooper's hīkoi was for change. This week's hīkoi was for keeping the status quo, the opposite of what the NZ Herald claims.
Today the NZ Herald's front page headline blared, " Hīkoi to Parliament: Tens of thousands energized for change after protest against...
rmacculloch
Nov 191 min read
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reports fake news nonsense about NZ's Treaty Debate.
You'd think the state-owned broadcaster in Britain, the BBC, could do a little bit of correct reporting on NZ. Instead, its front page...
rmacculloch
Nov 182 min read
We now know who bust NZ's economy: the Judiciary wrote a Communist-style Constitution without Consulting
The Treaty Debate is great. We've just found out, courtesy of our Kings Counsels, what has broken the economic back of this nation. It...
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