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As NZ Finance Minister Willis Orders the RBNZ to Cut ANZ's Capital Reserve Requirements, Australia's Authorities Order ANZ to Increase them.
This Blog has lost faith in Finance Minister Willis. We don't trust her anymore. Her speeches are designed to mislead, and waffle. She...
rmacculloch
Apr 302 min read
Finance Minister Willis wants her NZ Budgets to be "lolly scrambles", just not in 2025. Her Pre-Budget Speech is Out-of-Touch Wellington Jokey Silliness.
For some light relief and comedy, take a look at Finance Minister Willis Pre-Budget Speech . She sets up her party clown theme by...
rmacculloch
Apr 292 min read
National and Labour have created a Fiscal Crisis in NZ. There's only one way out. Here it is, in joint work with former Finance Minister Sir Roger Douglas
The Worst Finance Minister Ever, Labour's Grant Robertson, and now the new one who is competing for that title, Nicola Willis, have...
rmacculloch
Apr 281 min read
Either Victoria University is lying about its World Ranking, or its managers can't calculate percentages.
The QS World University Rankings 2025 say, " This year’s ranking is the largest ever, featuring over 1,500 universities" . Victoria...
rmacculloch
Apr 271 min read
Turning around NZ for a few million $ by buying the NZ Herald is the Best Deal Ever. Calling on all Investors to fire the going-nowhere, lost Herald Board.
A private investor with $10 million has bought 10% of NZ Media and Entertainment, which owns the Herald. Anyone who reads that paper...
rmacculloch
Apr 263 min read
One News, NZ's State Broadcaster, spends $1 million to attack 4 billion Muslims & Christians Worldwide.
Congratulations to One News in New Zealand, which has just spent around $1 million of tax payers dollars in the midst of a cost-of-living...
rmacculloch
Apr 262 min read
Having Walked Out of NZ at its Most Crucial Time when the Treaty Principles Bill was debated, PM Luxon visits the Vatican Palace, Buckingham Palace, and Sultan's Palaces in Istanbul
The Kiwi Prime Minister says he wants NZ's economy to grow. It got ranked near bottom of the world this week by the IMF in terms of real...
rmacculloch
Apr 241 min read
The IMF ranks NZ as 183rd out of 196 nations in the world for 2024 confirmed real economic (GDP) growth
Its official. The figures came in yesterday from the International Monetary Fund. NZ had one of the world's worst performing economies in...
rmacculloch
Apr 232 min read
Yale University in the US weaponizes Former NZ PM Jacinda Ardern Against President Trump, even using her to give him the middle finger on Tariffs.
Yale University must really want to get defunded by the US Government. Its leadership has just given Trump the big middle finger. One...
rmacculloch
Apr 232 min read
Finance Minister Willis Cannot Be Telling the Truth. She ordered the RBNZ's Capital Requirements Review, not the Reserve Bank. Why deny it?
Thank goodness the NZ Herald still has one great investigative reporter, Kate McNamara. In her expose yesterday she asked whether...
rmacculloch
Apr 233 min read
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
Apr 222 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
Apr 212 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
Apr 201 min read
The Ministry of Health'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
Apr 202 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
Apr 194 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
Apr 182 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
Apr 172 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
Apr 164 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
Apr 153 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
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