National Business Review

New Zealand needs to be presented choices for our future. It needs to have clear-cut alternatives offered by its parties. It needs to ensure that we solve today’s problems and not leave them to future generations.

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.

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.

A legacy of housing affordability would be a historic achievement and it would transform the lives of millions of New Zealanders. Good luck, Mr Prime Minister.

The CETA fiasco has seriously diminished the EU’s reputation as an organisation to do business with. Any other country thinking about doing trade deals with the EU will now think twice.

To make my own position perfectly clear: I am fundamentally ambivalent about whether New Zealand would be better off with a written constitution.

If Prime Minister John Key really wanted to turn New Zealand into the Switzerland of the South Pacific, this is what he should do.

Two Danish economists show economic growth and reform, not redistribution, is the best way to reduce income disparities.