Employment

Those weren't the good old days

13 Dec 18, 9:46am

Peter Dunne

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Peter Dunne says nobody wants to see a return to the once-common pattern of industrial disputes
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Ardern: Barclay's absence nothing to do with KiwiBuild policy

10 Dec 18, 8:27pm

Jenée Tibshraeny

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PM tight lipped on rumours KiwiBuild CEO Stephen Barclay is off work due to an employment dispute; Says his absence has nothing to do with the KiwiBuild programme
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Govt backs off on ACC motor vehicle levy hikes

10 Dec 18, 4:00pm

Jenée Tibshraeny

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Government vetoes ACC's proposed motor vehicle levy hike and reduces work levies. It also scraps the vehicle risk rating programme
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This week's guest Top 10

7 Dec 18, 10:08am

Guest

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Paul Barber from the NZ Council of Christian Social Services on hope, poverty, family violence, fixing a broken welfare system, reducing inequality through tax reform, virtual mechanics, what great people social workers are and more
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Govt's inaction on migration not a bad thing right now

25 Nov 18, 7:21am

Jenée Tibshraeny

93 comments

A look at the economic indicators that show the Government should keep avoiding introducing measures to majorly reduce migrant numbers
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Unemployment plummets to 3.9%

7 Nov 18, 11:12am

David Hargreaves

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Stats NZ says unemployment rate now lowest since June 2008; Employment rate at 68.3% is highest since the series began 30 years ago; wage growth remains subdued
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Treasury has issues with advice quality and staff over-work

17 Oct 18, 3:30pm

David Hargreaves

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Treasury head Gabriel Maklouf says providing the new Government with advice on complex issues 'had an impact on the quality of what we could deliver' and also had an impact on the wellbeing of Treasury staff
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Risks-a-plenty dampen economist's growth forecasts

12 Oct 18, 5:02am

Jenée Tibshraeny

54 comments

Infometrics' Gareth Kiernan sees enough speed bumps on the horizon to slow economic growth more than the market expects; says it's time for LVRs to be eased
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Twin objectives & committee decision making; The future of monetary policy

3 Oct 18, 9:24am

Brian Fallow

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Brian Fallow delves into the multifaceted debate around the proposed overhaul of the Reserve Bank's monetary policy framework
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Another bad survey for the Govt

2 Oct 18, 10:09am

David Hargreaves

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Latest NZIER Quarterly Survey of Business Opinion shows worst level of business confidence since March 2009
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The Trump trade war recession?

2 Oct 18, 9:23am

John Mauldin

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John Mauldin says the Trump tariffs could end the conditions that justified them. Something similar happened before, during the most famous trade mistake in US and global history: the 1930s Smoot-Hawley tariffs
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Machines will do half our work by 2025

30 Sep 18, 6:38am

Patrick Watson

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Patrick Watson argues we must prepare now for the mass upheaval coming as machines take humans' jobs
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House painter jailed for half a million dollars of tax evasion

27 Sep 18, 4:48pm

David Hargreaves

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The owner of 'No Stress Decorators' has been sentenced to 26 months in prison after failing to file any tax returns
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ACC's hefty road user levy hikes

27 Sep 18, 11:15am

David Hargreaves

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ACC's proposing a 12.1% hike in the average motor vehicle levy for road users, including a 1.9c per litre increase for petrol
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China for the trade win?

25 Sep 18, 7:45am

John Mauldin

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John Mauldin says it will take a long time to see how the US-China trade confrontation shakes out, and meantime we’ll see both sides alternately throwing and absorbing punches and the winner could even be a third party that may not exist yet
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It's spreading...

19 Sep 18, 9:55am

David Hargreaves

142 comments

Westpac McDermott Miller survey shows the collapsing confidence contagion is spreading, with the lowest level of consumer confidence in six years
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Eyes on the RBNZ after GDP figures

18 Sep 18, 10:03am

David Hargreaves

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Economists note that economic growth slower than the central bank is predicting would see growing speculation of future interest rate cuts - but higher growth figures would curtail such speculation
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Chinese growth spurt

17 Sep 18, 9:30am

John Mauldin

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John Mauldin relates some short stories about positive events in China, which demonstrate that China has good news, and even some fabulously great news, much of it quite compelling
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China's command innovation

10 Sep 18, 9:18am

John Mauldin

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John Mauldin delves deep into China and concludes that if it’s possible for a centrally planned economy to achieve sustainable long-term growth, China will be the one to do it
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