Insights
History is more than a set of pre-defined answers
Even with that understanding of history, different people will come to different conclusions.
Month: May 2021
The New Zealand Herald
Reserve Bank is coming full circle
If experience is anything to go by, the new RBNZ era will end in tears and inflation and it will take another Minister of Finance, and another RBNZ Governor, to clean up the mess.
Newsroom
Economic rationality long gone in Europe
The times of economic reason and rationality are long gone in Europe.
Insights
Economic logic vs. politics
the Government cared for higher wages, it should focus its efforts on improving New Zealand’s productivity. Empowering unions will achieve the opposite.
The New Zealand Herald
NZ’s labour markets have worked well, why overthrow them?
“Fair Pay Agreements” will make us more European than Europe, but not in a good way.
Newsroom
Will Europe’s recovery be worse than the recession?
The picture emerging for Europe is worrying. Maybe a big wave of insolvencies will wash over the continent right when the public might have believed that the pandemic recession is over.