Year: 2017

Brexit might not just mean Brexit but a surge in trade between the United Kingdom and New Zealand.

It is good that Prime Minister Bill English has restarted the Super debate. However, his plans could have been better.

We should not regard the homeownership rate as the most important measure of a functioning housing market. Just because the ownership rate is falling does not tell us much on its own. Neither is a high ownership rate necessarily a positive.

Bill Gates wants a tax on robots. But what about all the other things that have made us ever made more productive?

Democracy would be great were it not for election years.

On people, nature, law … and elves.

As New Zealand is looking ahead to a series of budget surpluses, it becomes imperative for the government to have an answer to those reflexes. And it has to be an attractive answer to stop the fiscal dogs from salivating.

Each year, the global affordability problem is getting worse. This year was no exception. Demographia’s 2017 report is the most depressing read so far.