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Seems neither Pharmac's CEO, nor its Chair, have ever prescribed a drug in NZ, since, as a general rule, they both have no legal authority to do so.
Pharmac has not been performing well - no small matter when every Kiwi's life depends on it. Today it was announced its CEO, Sarah Fitt,...
rmacculloch
Feb 281 min read
Will NZ Centre-Right Voters Forgive National's Grand Coalition Betrayal of Trust on the Treaty in Election 2026?
Last week, American Vice President JD Vance told European Security Chiefs in Munich, Germany, that the threat to European nations lay far...
rmacculloch
Feb 283 min read
The NZ Initiative's Exec Director Insults DownToEarth Kiwi. So can the PM now come clean and tell the Media how often he's talked with the Initiative?
Today Professor Nathan Berg from Otago University Economics Department wrote to say, " Hi Robert, I’ve become an adoring fan of your...
rmacculloch
Feb 264 min read
Is Productivity Low in NZ not because of the Government but because our Big Business CEO's and Corporate Boards are so Utterly Useless?
On 24 February 2020, the day before the pandemic blew up across the globe, the NZX 50 index of our stock market, being the companies with...
rmacculloch
Feb 262 min read
Does the Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle mean National's Foreign Investment Ambitions Won't Raise NZ Productivity?
The NZ Herald's Editor has declared its journalists will be promoted or fired on the basis of factors like how many clicks they get on...
rmacculloch
Feb 253 min read
The graph that shows how the RBNZ Mistakenly Caused NZ's Worst Slump since 1991 (barring Covid's 2020)
What have we got to know about Reserve Bank of NZ Governor Adrian Orr over the years? He can't take advice from, nor hires, folks more...
rmacculloch
Feb 242 min read
Advice to Young Kiwis how to manage your career in NZ, where corruption and nepotism are rampant, though where no-one ever gets prosecuted.
On The Platform Radio show last week, I unleashed on the topic of the lack of integrity and nepotism and corruption in New Zealand . It...
rmacculloch
Feb 223 min read
Former PM Hipkins Misled Five Million Kiwis & Betrayed Trust in Government
When the current Leader of the Labour Party was Prime Minister, on 7 March 2023, in the name of his government, over five million New...
rmacculloch
Feb 192 min read
A Plea to the Leaders of National, ACT and NZ First: Shaft the Main Stream Media & give most of your interviews to Podcasters, Bloggers (yes us) & Alternative Platforms.
I spoke with Radio NZ today - their Morning Report staff - who told me that ACT Leader David Seymour has instructed his Members of...
rmacculloch
Feb 192 min read
A Comment on Chief Crazy Horse Reserve Bank of NZ's Official Cash Rate Cut Today
I did Radio NZ's Morning Report commenting on the Reserve Bank's expected rate cut today. It says, " A Reuters poll of 33 economists had...
rmacculloch
Feb 193 min read
A Tribute to the Founder of Well-being Economics, Richard Easterlin, who we flew out to NZ in 2019. He symbolizes a choice our country must make.
A few weeks ago, the founder of well-being economic, Richard Easterlin died, at the age of 98. In 2019, I invited him out to NZ, as a...
rmacculloch
Feb 143 min read
The speakers at Waikato University's 2025 Economic Forum, "Unconstrained Thinking for Constrained Times", Symbolize NZ's Stagnation.
To help solve this country's economics woes, our Universities have jumped into action. Yes, Waikato has unleashed its 2025 New Zealand...
rmacculloch
Feb 144 min read
PM Luxon Trashes NZ's Passport & smears immigrants who've had to work for it. His Investor Visa is a Con: NZ already has 4th highest Net Foreign Investment in OECD.
When will the PM and his Finance Minister give up the marketing-PR-comms con-jobs they have embarked upon of late that only remind us of...
rmacculloch
Feb 113 min read
Given the mess Labour left, why aren't National & ACT light years ahead in the polls? Its the religious-style libertarian beliefs of their leaders and advisers.
About 10 years ago when ACT was on 0.2% of the vote with turmoil in the party, and on the back of the departure of its leader, John...
rmacculloch
Feb 94 min read
Should NZ's secular stagnation be due to working-from-home, lack-of-meritocracy & endless Treaty debates, then we can forget economic growth.
The country does not appear to be in a cyclical down-turn. Of course, the PM and his Finance Minister are desperately praying that all we...
rmacculloch
Feb 73 min read
Nicola Willis, as the New Minister of Economic Growth, may as well be Monty Python's Minister of Silly Walks
The article below of mine was published in the NZ Herald yesterday . Finance Minister Nicola Willis immediately complained, saying that...
rmacculloch
Feb 54 min read
NZ's National Income Accounts Prove the PM's Maths Does not Add up and his economic "strategy" will fail. You can't have investment without savings.
PM Luxon has made "economic growth" his sole objective in 2025, having spent his first year in office arguing about how he supports, and...
rmacculloch
Feb 43 min read
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