Opinion

18 Aug 18, 10:02am

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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Fonterra needs breaking up

17 Aug 18, 12:01pm

David Hargreaves

29 comments

David Hargreaves argues the Government needs to concede that the creation of Fonterra was the wrong thing to do and start again
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This week's Top 10

17 Aug 18, 10:04am

Gareth Vaughan

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Gareth Vaughan on when climate change was almost stopped, the theft of the century, debt piled on your children's children, tech bubbles, easy debt and a declining ability to think long-term & more
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Thriving in a world of uncertainty

16 Aug 18, 10:31am

Guest

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Peter Zámborský says companies that want to thrive in this world of uncertainty need to build their capabilities in ‘redesigning their business’
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Regime change at the RBNZ

16 Aug 18, 9:53am

Christian Hawkesby

8 comments

Christian Hawkesby suggests the new Adrian Orr-led regime at the Reserve Bank may result in increased volatility in interest rates and foreign exchange markets
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Paradise lost! Two decades of shocking failure in political leadership

14 Aug 18, 2:30pm

Kerry McDonald

77 comments

Kerry McDonald details why he believes New Zealand must hold a Royal Commission into the policy failures of successive governments since the Millennium
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KiwiBuild LVR poser

14 Aug 18, 9:32am

David Hargreaves

15 comments

The fact borrowing on the 100,000 KiwiBuild houses will mostly fall outside the LVR restrictions may force a rethink on macro-prudential policies
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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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Fonterra's broken

10 Aug 18, 3:25pm

David Hargreaves

34 comments

David Hargreaves says Fonterra needs to undergo a massive overhaul otherwise the consequences could be quite drastic
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Another winter of discontent in NZ?

9 Aug 18, 10:50am

Sharon Zollner

4 comments

ANZ Chief Economist Sharon Zollner looks at the detail of the country's slumping business confidence and what this might mean for the economy
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Ending a job-for-life

8 Aug 18, 8:28am

David Chaston

8 comments

David Chaston calls for a shakeup in the way auditors are appointed to banks who are systemically important to our economy and our financial stability
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Ignoring migration trends taints policy conclusions

5 Aug 18, 7:33am

Rodney Dickens

16 comments

Rodney Dickens says be wary of MBIE's National Construction Pipeline reports, especially their estimates of future residential construction
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Winston Peters owes Gerry Brownlee and Jacinda Ardern an apology

5 Aug 18, 7:22am

Jason Walls

32 comments

After a relatively controversy-free six weeks as Acting PM, Winston Peters’ disgraceful comments in the House on Wednesday have marred his short tenure, Jason Walls argues
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This week's Top 10

3 Aug 18, 9:59am

Gareth Vaughan

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Gareth Vaughan on the Lucky Country's luck running out, Jack Ma's giant ant, the ANZ-ING frozen funds revisited, Manafort & America's kleptocracy problem, goooal & more
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Has a new brain drain started?

2 Aug 18, 2:39pm

David Hargreaves

88 comments

David Hargreaves says while the figures show just a trickle of Kiwis now heading to Australia, history tells us the trickle tends to very quickly become a torrent
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NZ's relatively modest shadow economy

2 Aug 18, 11:22am

Guest

14 comments

The NZ Initiative's Bryce Wilkinson says New Zealanders are much more heavily taxed today than in the past
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Peters' performance has reinforced his importance to the Government

2 Aug 18, 10:19am

Peter Dunne

17 comments

After his stint as Acting PM Winston Peters will consider, with some justification, that he should play a much more prominent role in the leadership and direction of the government, says Peter Dunne
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QE turns 10

31 Jul 18, 9:01am

Guest

24 comments

Stephen Roach spells out five lessons from a decade of quantitative easing policies by central banks
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Endgame strategising

30 Jul 18, 10:05am

John Mauldin

15 comments

John Mauldin continues his 'Train Crash' series, by discussing more specific strategies that can be taken to cope with the forthcoming 'Great Reset'
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