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One option is to cut back on maintenance of your capital – say, to delay repainting the house or keeping the car in tip-top ...
The asymmetry between borrower and lender is well illustrated by Keynes telling the New Zealand Minister of Finance, William ...
The Government’s plans to remove the wellbeing provisions in the Public Finance Act represents a reversal of the way society is travelling.
She may have progressed our understanding of women in the economy but that has not resolved all the issues. A woman who was once chief executive of New Zealand’s biggest company said ‘It is true that ...
There was no less razzamatazz about the 2024 Budget than about earlier ones. Once again the underlying economic analysis got lost. It deserves more attention. Just to remind you, the Budget Economic ...
Muller was an imposing figure. He stood head and shoulders above most, but would lean in and hold your gaze and speak softly, and listen and engage respectfully even with lowly young trouble-makers.
ACT ‘s neoliberals are still trying to sneak in a change to the constitution. When ACT – the Association of Consumers and Taxpayers – was formed, its then party leader, Roger Douglas, with an ...
Reflections on a report I wrote for the New Zealand Productivity Commission The Government has asked the New Zealand Productivity Commission (NZPC) to enquire into the resilience of the New Zealand ...
Implementing the New Zealand Health and Disability System review not only involves major technical problems but creates fascinating political tensions. The government is promising to redisorganise the ...
The system would work by families choosing to go onto a different tax code – let’s call it the Family Tax Code (FTC) – which involved their paying 39 percent on all their market income. Additionally, ...
We cannot be sure, but the answer matters even in the short term. If you think you know what is happening to the economy, you have not been following it closely enough. Clearly the tenor of the ...
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