Year: 2021

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.

The times of economic reason and rationality are long gone in Europe.

the Government cared for higher wages, it should focus its efforts on improving New Zealand’s productivity. Empowering unions will achieve the opposite.  

“Fair Pay Agreements” will make us more European than Europe, but not in a good way.

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.

China’s President Xi Jinping once said that Soviet Communism collapsed because its ideals and beliefs had been shaken. Would he not expect the same of countries unwilling to stand up for their own ideals and beliefs?

There is no doubt the package, announced by Health Minister Andrew Little is bold.

There is only one regret I had after reading Sahra Wagenknecht’s new book. Despite many furious disagreements with many of her views, I wished it was available in English. It would shake up and enrich our political debates in a way no German communists since Marx and Engels have done.