GDP

7 Nov 18, 11:12am

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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Sharp decline in construction intentions

31 Oct 18, 1:14pm

David Hargreaves

32 comments

ANZ's latest Business Outlook Survey shows shows sharp drop in intentions to construct in both residential and commercial sectors; ANZ Chief Economist says next official interest rate move is more likely to be a cut than a hike
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Treasury has issues with advice quality and staff over-work

17 Oct 18, 3:30pm

David Hargreaves

5 comments

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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Inflation surges

16 Oct 18, 10:59am

David Hargreaves

44 comments

Stats NZ says prices rose 0.9% in the September quarter, giving an annual inflation rate of 1.9%; economists expected just a 0.7% quarterly rise
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Pumping it up

15 Oct 18, 11:44am

David Hargreaves

23 comments

We face the apparently contradictory situation in which inflation is strongly rising and yet the Reserve Bank will keep the possibility of interest rate cuts on the table
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Risks-a-plenty dampen economist's growth forecasts

12 Oct 18, 5:02am

Jenée Tibshraeny

52 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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Robertson's 'prudence' - more a matter of 'can't spend' than 'won't spend'

10 Oct 18, 6:48am

Jenée Tibshraeny

12 comments

Westpac economist Michael Gordon argues capacity constraints are restricting government spending more than its debt rules
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Govt books in good shape with OBEGAL surplus higher than expected

9 Oct 18, 1:11pm

Jenée Tibshraeny

67 comments

The Crown's tax take has grown quicker than its expenses, putting the Government in a position better than forecast in the Budget, debt target reached 4 years early
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Stagflation anyone?

9 Oct 18, 11:16am

David Hargreaves

69 comments

David Hargreaves ponders where the turbulent forces of a falling dollar, rising fuel prices and falling business confidence may take us
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Energy, the root of all wealth. Part 2; Looking forward

9 Oct 18, 10:39am

Guest

54 comments

Murray Grimwood, aka interest.co.nz commentator Power Down Kiwi, says NZ needs a strategic plan with all-party political support to achieve energy resilience
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What is Jacinda Ardern’s big idea?

8 Oct 18, 4:20pm

Guest

48 comments

Max Rashbrooke for The Spinoff attempts, as the Labour-led government approaches its first birthday, to divine whether there is a coherent ideological direction
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Treasury seeks views on new infrastructure agency

8 Oct 18, 3:14pm

David Hargreaves

4 comments

A discussion document has been released for consultation on the proposed independent infrastructure agency through which it is planned to lift the quality of infrastructure investment in New Zealand
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Energy - the root of all wealth

4 Oct 18, 1:27pm

Guest

85 comments

In the first of a two part series Murray Grimwood, aka interest.co.nz commentator Power Down Kiwi, outlines how important energy is to everything we do & its limitations
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Is confidence the key?

3 Oct 18, 3:09pm

David Hargreaves

27 comments

David Hargreaves ponders whether the bottoming levels of business confidence are really pointing to a substantial economic slowdown
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$1 bln up for grabs in R&D tax incentives

3 Oct 18, 10:13am

Guest

13 comments

EY's Tim Benbow and David Snell say the Government's new R&D plan is a bold initiative
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Another bad survey for the Govt

2 Oct 18, 10:09am

David Hargreaves

54 comments

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

11 comments

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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'Downside risk to migration'

1 Oct 18, 2:20pm

David Hargreaves

30 comments

ANZ economists expect slower but still substantial population growth through migration, but say if there is a more rapid slowdown, economic growth could slow markedly
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Business confidence rebounds

26 Sep 18, 1:37pm

David Hargreaves

9 comments

ANZ says latest results of its Business Outlook Survey suggest that while 'the economy may have hit a pothole, the wheels are not falling off'
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China for the trade win?

25 Sep 18, 7:45am

John Mauldin

33 comments

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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