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Soviet-born Oligarch gave Oxford's NZ Vice Chancellor Hood $150 million for a new School. He hired a Kiwi Dean to run it, who has now hired NZ's Ardern.
You can't keep Jacinda Ardern down. She's now muscling in on my action, going around universities in the world picking up cushy...
rmacculloch
1 day ago2 min read
Why Māori & Pasifika Do not Share the Same Basic Economic & Non-Economic Values as Labour & Greens.
Former Finance Minister Robertson told a story in his valedictory speech in Parliament. He said that he " wanted to thank [fellow Labour...
rmacculloch
2 days ago4 min read
To All School Students: wanna have a Cool, Highly Paid Career in NZ? Then consider either a B.Com (Economics) & Law Conjoint Degree, or Medicine.
Universities NZ has studied what our graduates get paid. The two highest are medicine & a conjoint BCom (Economics) - Law (honours)...
rmacculloch
3 days ago1 min read
Why has Labour's Heather Simpson, responsible for the Failed Creation of Health NZ, former Staff Chief of ex-PM Helen Clark, been promoted to Director of Inter-Island Ferry Procurement?
Why has health-care in NZ declined these past five years? In one line, it is because of the poorly thought out & economically unworkable...
rmacculloch
3 days ago2 min read
The NZ Herald's Board Should Be Fired. There is "editorial independence" at the paper: the Editor & Staff are left free & alone to write Biased Nonsense.
The NZ Herald's owner, NZME, has expressed "grave concerns" about a potential takeover being mounted by Jim Grenon. Is it concerned a...
rmacculloch
4 days ago3 min read
The Deputy Prime Minister Plagiarizes DownToEarth.Kiwi in his State of the Nation Address. Don't Believe Me? Read on. Its Welcome & Flattering.
Its good to know politicians read this Blog, so much so they're now copying whole chunks of it into their State of the Nation addresses ....
rmacculloch
4 days ago3 min read
Who will be Reserve Bank Governor? Lets trust Finance Minister Willis will not continue the Disgracefully Invalid Past Appointments Process
The formal, legal, official process behind the appointment of a new Reserve Bank of NZ Governor is enshrined in legislation which says...
rmacculloch
5 days ago2 min read
Spark NZ's Share Price is down about 66% since 2024. Read about how the company is a Champion of Diversity.
Last November we ran a story on Spark, the big oligopoly telecoms company, which used to be big monopoly company Telecom NZ, privatized...
rmacculloch
Mar 212 min read
What Politicians Will Say in their Lust for Power: Labour's Hipkins & Otago VC Robertson Must be Held to Account
Before the election toward the end of 2023, in September of that year, when Hipkins was PM & Mr Grant Robertson (BA) - now Vice...
rmacculloch
Mar 202 min read
The School Lunch Fiasco is not our Politicians' fault. It stems from the NZ Treasury's wrong economic advice.
To be fair to our politicians regards the controversies swirling over the quality and reliability of school lunches, the guilty party...
rmacculloch
Mar 192 min read
Why does Finance Minister Willis need "advice" on every single economics question? Why's she lost without it?
1. Finance Minister Willis was asked whether she wanted to change legislation to force the Reserve Bank of NZ to cut capital...
rmacculloch
Mar 173 min read
NZ Election 2026 will be a close call. Choosing between Labour's Proven Loser & National's Travelling Salesman.
What's Labour Leader Hipkins' record? Never-ending Auckland lock-downs that tore us apart; inflation; bureaucracy; suffocating red-tape....
rmacculloch
Mar 162 min read
Famous US Economists are Looking like Hypocrites & Fools with their Attacks on Trump's Policies. NZ Labour is Secretly being Advised by them.
Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz, who has visited NZ and has a close relative living here, and secretly advised our Labour Party during the...
rmacculloch
Mar 132 min read
Would Elon Musk get a fail in Monetary Economics by Milton Friedman?
As much as I admire much of what Elon Musk stands for, amusingly he's now getting into economics in a big way. Seems its a hobby for him,...
rmacculloch
Mar 121 min read
A Former Trustee of Dilworth Trust Responds to our NZ Herald Article
A former Dilworth Trustee asks that his response to our article be posted. He wonders (below) whether I've any connection to these issues...
rmacculloch
Mar 113 min read
The Billion dollar Dilworth Charitable Trust Should be Wound Up and the Funds Paid to Sexual Abuse Victims.
This article I wrote is in the Herald today . It's dedicated to the children who fell victim to sexual abuse at Dilworth College over...
rmacculloch
Mar 114 min read
My Former Economics MPhil and DPhil Class-Mate for many hard years, Mark Carney, becomes PM of Canada.
Congratulations Mark Carney. When I went to the UK to study economics, we started off doing a degree called Master of Philosophy in...
rmacculloch
Mar 101 min read
Why Pro-market US Economists hate Trump, but maybe missing the point, with implications for New Zealand.
Why are pro-market American economists, many of them Republican, so infuriated by President Trump? Usually the likes of former Chair of...
rmacculloch
Mar 103 min read
Returning Hipkins as PM, the man who waged war on Auckland, turned us into prisoners, caused stagnation & will tax your family home, is unthinkable
Whatever the (glaring) faults of the Nats and Chris Luxon, who has disappointed many of us, the idea of returning Opposition Leader...
rmacculloch
Mar 92 min read
It beggars belief: why do PM Luxon & Minister Bishop's 100 foreign investors "visiting" NZ next week comprise 50 local Auckland firms?
This Blog does genuinely try to be non-partisan, making it neither a friend of National, nor Labour. We're doing what State Broadcasters...
rmacculloch
Mar 83 min read
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