Disaster: the truth behind New Zealand’s full employment
New Zealand has crippled its labour market. Only economic illiterates would celebrate this disaster as full employment. [...]
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Paying the price for economic mismanagement
The Government’s economic competence will determine how long and how deep our economic downturn will be. [...]
The meaning of independence
New Zealanders must realise that, in a less benign world, an independent foreign policy cannot mean neutrality. And the Prime Minister delivered that message loud and clear. [...]
Even mediocre would be easier to bear: how NZ lost its mojo
For many years, pollsters Roy Morgan and Curia have been asking New Zealanders whether the country is heading in the right direction. Apart from a few months around the Global Financial Crisis in 2008, large majorities of Kiwis have always responded “Yes”. [...]
The jury is out
I still believe in trial by jury. But not in the efficiency of our justice system. [...]
NZ Reserve Bank virtue signalling rings hollow
No amount of virtue signalling and cultural appropriation can be a substitute for good policy-making. [...]
Māori deserve better than the RBNZ’s cultural appropriation
Māori are not responsible for a central bank that has lost its way. [...]
Back to the supply-side future
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. [...]
Is there an ethno-segregation agenda behind NZ’s water policy?
Three Waters is about everything. It is about the government’s new race-relations agenda. It is about the Ardern Government’s direction for the country. It is about the divide between Wellington and the regions. It may even be a little about water. [...]
How central banking lost its way
Stability is the task for which central banks were established. But by becoming involved in social, indigenous or environmental policy areas, central banks lost sight of it. [...]