The New Zealand Herald

Back to the supply-side future

09/06/2022

Deregulation, privatisation, lower taxes, free trade, and openness to trade and investment may have fallen out of fashion recently. We need to bring them back into fashion to cope with our many economic challenges. Deregulation, privatisation, lower taxes, free trade, and openness to trade and investment may have fallen out of fashion recently. We need to bring them back into fashion to cope with our many economic challenges.

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An inflation crisis of the Government’s making

22/02/2022

What if the same politicians now trying to save us from high prices caused our current situation?

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Social insurance lessons from Germany

07/12/2021

Would we really like to end up with an arrangement that puts a massive wedge between people’s gross and net incomes? A system, by the way, that also harms employment outcomes, especially for the most vulnerable?

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Don’t let ‘sunk costs’ hold New Zealand back from freedom

16/09/2021

With all these billions spent and all the sacrifices we have made, is it any wonder that people are hesitant to abandon elimination?

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The ‘Green Paradox’ in Government’s CentrePort investment

17/08/2021

It is much easier to channel public money to some preferred emitters and then post pictures of electric vehicles on Twitter. It achieves little but the warm fuzzy feeling is priceless.

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Government the real obstacle to supermarket competition

03/08/2021

Only free entry into the retail market would tell us if there is enough supermarket competition in New Zealand.

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When central bankers want to be politicians

06/07/2021

Once upon a time, central bankers did not tweet. And perhaps that was just as it should be.

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The problem with Climate Commission chair Rod Carr’s economic argument

08/06/2021

The problem with economics is that it often uses a language that non-economists do not speak. But economists should know better.

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Reserve Bank is coming full circle

28/05/2021

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.

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