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Fire the "All Talk" NZ Treasury Secretary. Throw Out his Rubbish All Talk "Te Ara Mokopuna 2025 Consultation"
Readers of this Blog have long known about our frustration with Wellington's lack of action by career bureaucrats over practically every...
rmacculloch
3 hours ago2 min read
Regards Free Trade, did NZ get conned by the European Union? Our trade agreement with it cost our government $280 million a year.
Former Trade Minister David Parker & Prime Minister Ardern signed a free trade agreement with the European Union (EU), which they touted...
rmacculloch
1 day ago2 min read
Restore the Reserve Bank's Trashed Mana: None of Lame Duck Governor Hawkesby's Executive Leadership Team has ever studied economics.
One need only look at new Reserve Bank Governor Hawkesby's Executive Leadership Team to work out why New Zealand's Reserve Bank should be...
rmacculloch
2 days ago1 min read
Health NZ's Executive Governance Team knows Next to Nothing about Health-care
The Prime Minister obviously knows little about health-care. Its not his thing, which is more marketing. So he appointed a new Minister...
rmacculloch
2 days ago2 min read
Former National Party Treaty Minister Finlayson damages NZ by describing ACT as a "populist" party in world news.
The "populist" cat-call is being used a lot these days. Its often heard in the context of the US President. Now former NZ National Party...
rmacculloch
3 days ago4 min read
How NZ should be responding to the United States Trump Tariffs with the Aim of Making Kiwis Better Off
Foreign Minister Peters has a point. The NZ Prime Minister is getting hysterical & hot-under-the-collar about Trump's tariffs, seeing it...
rmacculloch
4 days ago2 min read
The US President calls former NZ PM Ardern & her ilk at Harvard's Kennedy School "radical left bird-brains only capable of teaching FAILURE".
Yesterday the US President lambasted Harvard University. He ordered its Federal funding to be cut. For those curious about the inner...
rmacculloch
5 days ago2 min read
China, Throw Down your Wall. Give Freedom to your people. Doing So Will Eliminate America's Trade Deficit with Your Nation and End the Tariffs.
Its easy to believe there's a world-wide Big Media frenzied conspiracy against the US, which our increasingly hysterical PM has jumped...
rmacculloch
6 days ago4 min read
US Senator Bernie Sanders Symbolizes The Free Trade Hypocrites Becoming More Hysterical by the Day
Want to know why US left-wingers are looking stupid? This past week none other than US Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders has been hitting...
rmacculloch
7 days ago3 min read
A Solution to NZ's Richest Man, Nick Mowbray's, Awful Billion $ Problem: Move your Factories to NZ and get a 10% Tariff, not China's 145% rate.
Oh dear, it must be keeping him up at night. Despite being worth over $20 billion, Zuru billionaire Nick Mowbray gave an interview with...
rmacculloch
Apr 152 min read
Who in the PM's National Party Caucus, including Luxon, is trying to Pervert the Course of Justice, Stripping Wronged Bank Customers of their legal right to sue to make the Big Banks Pay?
Why do we have a high cost of living? Because even when you break the law in NZ at the expense of your customers, the penalties are so...
rmacculloch
Apr 142 min read
How does NZ Labour compare to National on State Size?
Some readers of ours are writing to say that even though Prime Minister Luxon could not be bothered turning up to the single most...
rmacculloch
Apr 122 min read
The US President has united NZ (and World) Leftist Main Stream Media in an Embrace of Free Market Economics
For over a decade I tried, and failed, to persuade our politicians, media folks, and Kiwis more generally how free markets, competition &...
rmacculloch
Apr 113 min read
The PM Abrogates Leadership of NZ: Today he hid from Parliament whilst the Most Vital (Treaty) Issue Affecting our Economic Future was Debated.
This comment is far more about economics than politics. Today ACT's Treaty Principle's Bill was debated in Parliament and the Prime...
rmacculloch
Apr 103 min read
NZ Initiative Chairman Partridge gets his international economics wrong. Its worrying given the PM and Finance Minister's relationship with that outfit.
Usually commenting on a fringe think-tank would be a waste of time. But its worth doing so in the case of the NZ Initiative since its...
rmacculloch
Apr 94 min read
Why's Productivity Low in NZ? The HMNZS Manawanui's Inquiry Explains. Poor Leaders. Its Lousy CEOs, Bosses, Inbred Boards, Ministers, Admirals. Our Non-Human Systems Work Just Fine.
Want to know why productivity is low in NZ? Go read the report into "the circumstances that resulted in the loss of HMNZS MANAWANUI off...
rmacculloch
Apr 82 min read
Labour Leader Hipkins pretends on Newstalk that he's pro-free trade & pro-business (to get Auckland's vote).
The guy who locked down Auckland indefinitely during the pandemic, closed our borders so not one foreigner could enter, and even Kiwis...
rmacculloch
Apr 73 min read
The Prize for "Biggest Green-washers" in NZ goes to .. The Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand.
The topic of Corporate Social Responsibility is becoming undermined in economics by the prevalence of "green-washing", which happens when...
rmacculloch
Apr 63 min read
The Hypocrisy of Leftist Economists, including Nobel Laureate Krugman regards Trump's Tariffs, is disturbing.
Lets cut to the chase and expose the rank contradictions of left-wingers harping on about how awful are Trump's tariffs. Lets first zero...
rmacculloch
Apr 63 min read
Its official (according to the best NZ estimates): Trump's Tariffs will boost NZ's GDP. Thank goodness The Donald is helping lift NZ out of stagnation.
Estimating the effects of tariffs on different countries' GDP is a difficult thing to do, because there are so many flow-on effects....
rmacculloch
Apr 42 min read
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