Govt spending cuts needlessly worsening recession & hollowing out business, say economists, including former Chief Economist at Treasury, in a letter to PM;...
2 months ago

THREE KEY FACTS Robert MacCulloch holds the Matthew S. Abel Chair of Macroeconomics at Auckland University. He previously worked at the Reserve Bank,...
2 months ago

Nicola Willis denies responsibility for worst recession since 1991, when Ruth Richardson unleashed the Mother of All Budgets; Willis' austerity strategy...
1 month ago

The rightwing enthusiasm for authoritarian Singapore illustrates the extent to which, on one crucial point at least, New Zealand's hands-off approach to the...
2 months ago

Fletcher Building has been labelled New Zealand's most useless company and a monopoly that needs to be busted. Auckland University economics professo...
11 months ago

The Gini coefficient for Taiwanese households was 0.606 at the end of 2021, lower than Australia's 0.611, the UK's 0.620, Japan's 0.678, France's 0.676 and...
8 months ago

Former Minister of Finance, Grant Robertson has resigned from Parliament to take up a job as Vice Chancellor of the University of Otago.
11 months ago

Protests and economic criticism cloud Coalition's first anniversary as pressure mounts for it to deliver on campaign promises.
2 months ago

The government is again being criticised for public sector job cuts, but it is also being accused of not going far enough.
7 months ago

Comment: Trying to retrospectively graft an economic theory onto the coalition Government's economic policy is equally simplistic, write Rob Campbell.
1 month ago