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Don’t let ‘sunk costs’ hold New Zealand back from freedom
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
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
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
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
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
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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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.
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The politics of legal sausage-making
The business of legislation is murky. As the saying goes, “Laws are like sausages: Better not to see them being made”.
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Don’t know much about history?
New Zealand students deserve a better understanding of history, including their own but not limited to it.
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The coming monetary crisis in Europe
Europe’s crisis was bad but not as bad as it could have been. Still, the worst is yet to come.