Is Newshub's putdown of NZ's only two female Finance Ministers, Ruth Richardson & Nicola Willis, misogyny?
Of all the Finance Ministers that MainStreamMedia & Jacinda Ardern could attack, how ironic they turn their fire on our first ever female...
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rmacculloch
May 302 min read
Census 2023 reveals Wellington is the only city in NZ that shrunk. Why drag the whole of NZ down by pouring money into its problems? Let it go.
Its official. Wellington's population shrunk between 2018 and 2023. Most right-wing bloggers and think-tanks in NZ are based in...
rmacculloch
May 302 min read
Comment: The Budget Today is Largely a Public Relations Event, Irrelevant to Fixing the NZ Economy
Although it may seem an odd comment to make, today's budget will make little significant impact whatsoever on our economic future. To...
rmacculloch
May 281 min read
When will Otago University and its new Vice Chancellor, Grant Robertson, take down the False Advertising that says it is ranked in the "top 1% of World Universities".
The latest 2024 edition of QS World University Rankings features 1,500 institutions across 104 locations, and ranks Otago in 206th place...
rmacculloch
May 282 min read
NZ Treasury Mis-sells Wellington to Job Applicants using outdated Lonely Planet Data. After re-locating, they may not appreciate it.
What's gone wrong with our public institutions? The University of Otago falsely claims on the front of its website that it is "ranked in...
rmacculloch
May 272 min read
Did the Reserve Bank massage its OCR forecasts to help Labour keep power? (we've found evidence pointing to it)
Last year, in the lead up to the national election, Governor Orr said in May 2023 that he was "very confident" there would not be further...
rmacculloch
May 253 min read
Return of the Fathers: what to expect in the John Key-Bill English - oops, sorry - I meant Chris Luxon-Nicola Willis NZ budget this week.
The title of this Blog says it all. It's been a struggle to do economic commentary under the new Coalition, since there's so little new...
rmacculloch
May 242 min read
RBNZ Governor says “eventually, monetary policy will win the day”, beating ordinary Kiwis, and blames overseas factors, on the very same day inflation fell in UK to 2.3%
How tone deaf of the Reserve Bank Governor to say this Wed 22 May that the Bank will eventually "win the day" with its choke-hold...
rmacculloch
May 236 min read
Fifteen Reasons why Productivity in NZ will continue to stagnant (or "You Can't Have Your Cake and Eat It Too").
These past six years productivity has stagnated in New Zealand and may have even fallen. It went nowhere under John Key's government as...
rmacculloch
May 223 min read
Charter Schools are a worthwhile addition to our school system - but ACT is mis-selling why they are Good and Labour is mis-selling why they are Bad.
We know the old saying, "Never trust a politician", and the Charter School debate is a good example of it. Charter Schools receive public...
rmacculloch
May 212 min read
Why has Einstein Medalist Roy Kerr, the outstanding mathematician from NZ, never been Knighted?
National and Labour and ACT have at various times waxed on about their "vision" of NZ as a high value-added world tech center. What...
rmacculloch
May 212 min read
NZ's Share-market is lower now than it was before the Pandemic 4 - 5 years ago; the US is up nearly 40%.
We were told again & again that the never-ending Auckland lock-down strategy engineered by Chris Hipkins and the Otago University...
rmacculloch
May 172 min read
OneNews blames immigration to NZ for emigration (of young Kiwis out of NZ). Maybe they're leaving because our Media has depressed them?
If a Blogger accused immigrants of nicking houses & jobs off young native NZ'ers, causing them to leave the country, then we'd likely be...
rmacculloch
May 132 min read
TVNZ Betrayed the Public Trust by not giving Kiwis a "Fair Go". It is loss-making, serves no public service due to bias, and should be liquidated.
According to the respected Pew Research Centre, "In seven of eight [European] countries surveyed, the most trusted news outlet asked...
rmacculloch
May 122 min read
Was the Hipkins-Ardern Government the only one in NZ post-World War II history that ended with productivity lower than at the start of its term?
What did Chris Hipkins do to the economy? What did Jacinda Ardern do to it? What did the new Vice Chancellor of Otago, Grant Robertson,...
rmacculloch
May 112 min read
Is Otago University's advertising a true and faithful representation of where that University is ranked globally?
Take a look at Otago's website - it hits you, straight up, with a huge advertising banner: "Top 1%", eh. Look at the actual QS world...
rmacculloch
May 102 min read
The Treasury Doesn't Have a Clue why Productivity is falling in NZ
The Treasury's latest report, The Productivity Slowdown: Implications for the Treasury’s Forecasts and Projections states that, "There...
rmacculloch
May 73 min read
A Left-Right Ranking of Universities in NZ: a Practical Guide for Students and Parents
Here is my subjective ranking on a "most-left" to "most-right" scale of most of our major NZ Universities, with some anecdotal (and at...
rmacculloch
May 62 min read
Chlöe Swarbrick says capital taxes are "basic economic sense", which goes to show she doesn't have any.
Chlöe Swarbrick is reported by the National Business Review as being adamant that tax reform is needed in NZ. She says that adopting a...
rmacculloch
May 34 min read
Do Newsroom's staff think they're culturally superior to the rest of us? Are they arguing that Amazonians & other Indigenous Societies are "Philistines"?
Can't remember the last book by a Kiwi author you read? Think the NZ government should spend less on the arts in favor of helping the...
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