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Monthly migration gain smallest since May 2014

21 May 18, 11:27am

Rising numbers of non-New Zealanders are continuing to leave, pushing net migration down from high levels to an annual gain of 67,000 in April, down nearly 5000 from a year earlier
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Train crash preview

21 May 18, 9:25am

John Mauldin

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John Mauldin describes how he thinks we will get from the credit crisis he believes is coming in the next 12–18 months, to what he's terming the Great Reset
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Budget 2018: No doubt it’s a ‘rebuilding budget’

17 May 18, 2:01pm

Jason Walls

112 comments

More than half of new spending goes to rebuilding public services and almost half of that is focused on health – Treasury’s GDP forecasts are optimistic at 3% over the next three years
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The credit-driven train crash

16 May 18, 10:59am

John Mauldin

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John Mauldin begins a delve into what he sees as a rapidly approaching train wreck; 'Something is on the tracks ahead and I don't see how we'll avoid hitting it'
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Orr makes ‘easiest decision’ in more than a decade to keep OCR on hold

10 May 18, 1:07pm

Jason Walls

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The Reserve Bank Governor has already won over the bank economists with his new style of upfront and simple communication
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A beast half-tamed

8 May 18, 7:25am

Guest

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Mercer's David Scobie says inflation may be lying low at the moment - but it is lurking
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Capitalism can't work without losers

4 May 18, 9:27am

Patrick Watson

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Patrick Watson says free markets don't work well unless certain people lose - otherwise the entire system fails and everyone loses; which is happening right now
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CTU, BusinessNZ and Government join forces to ‘future proof’ NZ

3 May 18, 12:26pm

Jason Walls

51 comments

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern introduces the ‘tripartite Future Work Forum’ with a goal to prepare NZ for the ‘rapidly changing nature of work’
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China and India need to find ways to work together

30 Apr 18, 2:40pm

Siah Hwee Ang

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Siah Hwee Ang looks at the fraught relationship between China and India pointing out the economic strengths of the two countries are actually complementary
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March migration gain smallest in four years

24 Apr 18, 11:05am

David Hargreaves

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Immigration is continuing to drop from very high levels spurred by rising numbers of departing non-New Zealanders; over 3000 non-Kiwis left in March - a record for a March month
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ANZ says Government’s 20% debt target is ‘arbitrary’

23 Apr 18, 2:50pm

Jason Walls

20 comments

The country's biggest bank is suggesting New Zealand’s 'urgent' need for infrastructure outweighs the Government’s 'arbitrary [debt] target'
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Building a house 'more attractive than buying one'

18 Apr 18, 4:24pm

David Hargreaves

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ANZ economists say the cost of building a new house has become more attractive relative to the cost of buying an existing one
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What a 'wellbeing framework' means for migration

14 Apr 18, 10:31am

Jenée Tibshraeny

33 comments

Why we'd all be better off being more welcoming to migrants' elderly parents and improving the quality of education offered to international students
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RBNZ 'has always had regard to the labour market'

12 Apr 18, 11:38am

David Hargreaves

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RBNZ Assistant Governor John McDermott says change to a dual mandate in Policy Targets Agreement will ensure the current flexibilty in the bank's approach endures
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House prices and debt rein in consumer spending

9 Apr 18, 1:55pm

David Hargreaves

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ANZ economists say high house prices and associated high debt levels have seen consumer spending remain more subdued than might have been expected with the economy buoyant
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Annual Auckland GDP tops $100 bln for the first time

21 Mar 18, 1:22pm

Gareth Vaughan

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Auckland region's annual GDP bigger than Wellington, Canterbury and Waikato's combined, Statistics NZ figures show
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What a 'wellbeing budget' would actually mean

21 Mar 18, 11:59am

Jenée Tibshraeny

26 comments

How future governments' policies and spending priorities will be shaped by both wellbeing and GDP being factored into their decision-making
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Tony Alexander warns of NZ’s economic ‘blind spots’

20 Mar 18, 11:45am

Jason Walls

98 comments

BNZ’s chief economist Tony Alexander says New Zealanders are too used to high growth and points out a myriad of potential economic issues he calls 'blind spots'
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Positive, but not game-changing

19 Mar 18, 11:13am

David Chaston

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David Chaston explains why current economic growth is probably as good as it will get. There aren't many more workers who can participate & we need large, long-term business investment to change productivity
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The economy shifts down a gear, GDP data shows

15 Mar 18, 11:22am

Jason Walls

37 comments

New Zealand’s economy grew by a whisker under 3% last year as GDP data for the fourth quarter of 2017 came in under market expectations – the growth figure is more than 1% off 2016’s figure
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