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New India, new momentum and opportunities for New Zealand

22 Sep 18, 10:10am

Guest

Sunil Kaushal says the time is ripe for New Zealand to tap into the opportunities presented by the new India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi
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Tax group tackles housing supply

20 Sep 18, 3:36pm

David Hargreaves

62 comments

Tax Working Group considers 'vacant land' and 'empty home' taxes as a way of increasing housing supply and affordability
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'No wealth taxes or land taxes'

20 Sep 18, 11:13am

David Hargreaves

60 comments

Tax Working Group interim report says work on capital income 'not yet complete' but gives two options; group is not recommending either wealth taxes or land taxes
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GDP's big surprise

20 Sep 18, 10:59am

David Hargreaves

77 comments

Stats NZ says June quarter GDP surged 1% against expectations of 0.8% rise; biggest increase in 2 years; size of the rise means OCR cuts may now be off the table
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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

28 comments

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

13 comments

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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Setting the goals

13 Sep 18, 3:23pm

Guest

30 comments

Murray Grimwood, aka Power Down Kiwi, looks at the problems we face and aspirational ways we might approach them
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A tale of two sectors in NZ

12 Sep 18, 10:21am

Guest

4 comments

Bankers' Association Acting CEO Antony Buick-Constable rejects suggestions banks are not playing their part in the construction sector and says bank lending to the sector is at its highest since the GFC
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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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Systems thinking, logic; and why GDP is past its use-by date

1 Sep 18, 9:35am

Guest

29 comments

Murray Grimwood, aka Power Down Kiwi, delivers a short treatise on unflawed thinking arguing we need a measure of stocks rather than a measure of flows like GDP
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The neon elephant is on the charge

30 Aug 18, 3:50pm

David Hargreaves

81 comments

David Hargreaves says the Government may need a real business-friendly symbolic gesture to stop the country heading into a self-induced downturn
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Why S&P believes the US will only take a small hit from its trade war

22 Aug 18, 7:51am

Jenée Tibshraeny

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Jenée Tibshraeny talks to S&P's US Chief Economist about the US being strong enough to weather a trade war, but vulnerable to fiscal stimulus creating more inflation than productivity
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Goldman Sachs reduces its NZ GDP growth forecast

21 Aug 18, 11:18am

Jason Walls

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One of the world’s biggest investment banks cuts its expectations for NZ’s economic growth citing, in part, business confidence – but it is expecting growth to pick back up before too long
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NZ’s economy might not be as hot as we’re being told

20 Aug 18, 7:50am

Jason Walls

42 comments

BNZ’s Head of Research Stephen Toplis is clearly not as optimistic as the Reserve Bank or the Government when it comes to NZ’s future growth – but why?
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A Top 10 for the weekend

18 Aug 18, 10:02am

Matt Nolan

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Matt Nolan on the top 10 freely available indicators to use to try and figure out what's going on with the New Zealand economic cycle
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What would Simon do?

14 Aug 18, 5:00am

Jenée Tibshraeny

33 comments

Simon Bridges on how he would take up John Key's challenge to identify new economic drivers to replace strong migration and house price growth if he was in government
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The company tax conundrum

13 Aug 18, 10:26am

Terry Baucher

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Terry Baucher crunches the numbers around corporate tax and says anybody expecting the Tax Working Group to suggest a cut in the tax is going to be disappointed
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The Government and the Governor – the twin engines of the new economy

12 Aug 18, 6:58am

Jason Walls

114 comments

Finance Minister Grant Robertson has long talked of the ‘transition’ the New Zealand economy needs to go through – Jason Walls says Thursday’s MPS marked an important part of that transition
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What’s got Adrian Orr so dovish?

9 Aug 18, 12:41pm

Jason Walls

40 comments

The Reserve Bank surprised financial markets by saying it does not expect the next OCR move to be until 2020, but why has Governor Orr suddenly become so much more dovish?
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