Speeches
Capitalism: Bruised but still champion
Speech to the PortfolioConstruction Forum Symposium in Auckland on why capitalism, though bruised, remains the champion.
2014
Insights
Prudence in the years of plenty
Bill English’s achievements of the past six years of adversity are remarkable.
Business Spectator
Europe’s elections: pick a party, any party
Effective political decision-making has never really been the EU’s strength in the euro crisis.
Insights
Labour’s monetary upgrade
Those who believe they can neatly choose between higher unemployment and higher inflation, typically end up with both.
Business Spectator
Europe’s institutional house of cards
Europe’s policy paralysis has been of a similar nature in the euro crisis.
Interest.co.nz
We need to be much less restrictive in welcoming foreign direct investment
New Zealand affords itself the luxury of treating overseas investment as a privilege rather than as a necessary and desirable means of better integrating ourselves with the world, so as to make the most of what it has to offer.
Business Spectator
‘Whatever it takes’ is not the whole story
What may look like the euro’s strength is not quite what it seems.
Insights
There is no magic in numbers
Whether there is enough competition in the New Zealand retail sector, is hard to tell.
Insights
‘H’ is for history of economic thought
Knowing something about the development of economics can save you from having to reinvent the wheel.
National Business Review
Councils need new funding sources
LGNZ’s inquiry into local government funding makes sense.