Opinion

A taxing year looms

18 Feb 19, 9:55am

Terry Baucher

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Terry Baucher looks ahead at a big year for taxation, Inland Revenue, and its 'customers'
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Improved, but warning remains

16 Feb 19, 10:02am

Rodney Dickens

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Rodney Dickens says there are still issues with new migration numbers even after some major revisions
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Trade power goes with military power

16 Feb 19, 9:16am

Patrick Watson

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Patrick Watson of Mauldin Economics says the assumption that the US has the military upper hand on China is just that - an assumption - and no one really knows if it is true, though some of the signs aren’t good
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China is about to test us

15 Feb 19, 12:44pm

David Chaston

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We look at what we have at risk in trade and economic exposure to China as they ramp up economic and political pressure on us to join its world view on trade and 'friendly relations'
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This week's guest Top 5

15 Feb 19, 10:00am

Siah Hwee Ang

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Siah Hwee Ang on the latest happenings surrounding China, including the inevitable slowdown, a call for more investments and imports, keeping multinationals on their toes, the new e-commerce law and the new tech ambitions
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Making New Zealand banks great again

15 Feb 19, 9:41am

Martien Lubberink

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Martien Lubberink probes the governance of the Reserve Bank's proposals to increase bank capital, noting the proposals are as simplistic as they are Trumpian
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'We need a Ministry of Systems'

14 Feb 19, 12:28pm

Guest

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Murray Grimwood looks at how we should think about environmental systems on a planet with finite limits increasingly being stretched, even if we collectively turn a blind eye to those limits
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Govt tensions on Capital Gains Tax show

14 Feb 19, 8:47am

Peter Dunne

21 comments

Peter Dunne says Greens co-leader James Shaw's CGT comments are far less a statement on his party's position and more an attempt to flush out where NZ First stands
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Why the big reaction?

13 Feb 19, 5:29pm

David Chaston

3 comments

Even though the RBNZ didn't announce any significant changes in monetary policy, currency and interest rate markets jumped. That says more about traders getting assumptions wrong than the RBNZ
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Major changes needed to Reserve Bank governance

12 Feb 19, 12:32pm

Geof Mortlock

48 comments

Geof Mortlock makes the case for a shake-up to RBNZ governance and a fundamental, independent review of the regulatory framework for NZ's financial system
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You will never have 'enough' money

11 Feb 19, 1:54pm

David Hargreaves

68 comments

David Hargreaves ponders the unanswerable question of how much money is desirable for a comfortable retirement
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US corporate debt with BBB- credit ratings 'a ticking time bomb'

11 Feb 19, 12:16pm

Guest

5 comments

Mauldin Economics' Robert Ross argues the corporate debt bubble is strikingly similar to the subprime mortgage bubble
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Who will break the news to President Trump?

11 Feb 19, 10:15am

Chris Trotter

35 comments

Chris Trotter suggests that given socialism has begun to matter in the USA, it will very soon matter everywhere else too
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'We can do better than a capital gains tax'

9 Feb 19, 10:02am

Geoff Simmons

96 comments

TOP Leader Geoff Simmons on why we need to kill, not tax, capital gain
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Finally, a China strategy that might work

9 Feb 19, 9:46am

Patrick Watson

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Patrick Watson of Mauldin Economics details an off-ramp from the trade war, hoping President Trump takes it for the benefit of the US economy
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The UK’s suicidal tendencies

9 Feb 19, 9:26am

Guest

4 comments

Most politicians on the UK left and the right know that leaving the EU without an exit agreement would be a national calamity. So why have almost all refused to do anything to halt the slide toward a catastrophic no-deal Brexit?
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This week's guest Top 5

8 Feb 19, 10:00am

Guest

9 comments

Motu researchers on air pollution, free public transport, pre-trial inmates, soccer players’ contracts and learning what phylogeny means in fairy stories
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Hayne’s suggestion is hard to fathom as a solution

8 Feb 19, 9:43am

Guest

33 comments

Wellington mortgage broker Andrew Perry spells out how consumers would be hurt if Aussie banks weren't allowed to pay brokers commission
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Getting its houses in order

7 Feb 19, 10:54am

David Hargreaves

77 comments

David Hargreaves adds his voice to those exhorting the Government to keep its nerve on plans to build more houses
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RBA to cut interest rates to 1%

6 Feb 19, 12:30pm

Guest

16 comments

Capital Economics thinks the RBA's growth assumptions are too optimistic and sees them cutting both these forecasts and their policy interest rate
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