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The IMF ranks NZ as 183rd out of 196 nations in the world for 2024 confirmed real economic (GDP) growth
Its official. The figures came in yesterday from the International Monetary Fund. NZ had one of the world's worst performing economies in...
rmacculloch
7 hours ago2 min read
Yale University in the US weaponizes Former NZ PM Jacinda Ardern Against President Trump, even using her to give him the middle finger on Tariffs.
Yale University must really want to get defunded by the US Government. Its leadership has just given Trump the big middle finger. One...
rmacculloch
13 hours ago2 min read
Finance Minister Willis Cannot Be Telling the Truth. She ordered the RBNZ's Capital Requirements Review, not the Reserve Bank. Why deny it?
Thank goodness the NZ Herald still has one great investigative reporter, Kate McNamara. In her expose yesterday she asked whether...
rmacculloch
16 hours ago3 min read
Fire the "All Talk" NZ Treasury Secretary. Throw Out his Rubbish All Talk "Te Ara Mokopuna 2025 Consultation"
Readers of this Blog have long known about our frustration with Wellington's lack of action by career bureaucrats over practically every...
rmacculloch
2 days ago2 min read
Regards Free Trade, did NZ get conned by the European Union? Our trade agreement with it cost our government $280 million a year.
Former Trade Minister David Parker & Prime Minister Ardern signed a free trade agreement with the European Union (EU), which they touted...
rmacculloch
3 days ago2 min read
Restore the Reserve Bank's Trashed Mana: None of Lame Duck Governor Hawkesby's Executive Leadership Team has ever studied economics.
One need only look at new Reserve Bank Governor Hawkesby's Executive Leadership Team to work out why New Zealand's Reserve Bank should be...
rmacculloch
4 days ago1 min read
Health NZ's Executive Governance Team knows Next to Nothing about Health-care
The Prime Minister obviously knows little about health-care. Its not his thing, which is more marketing. So he appointed a new Minister...
rmacculloch
4 days ago2 min read
Former National Party Treaty Minister Finlayson damages NZ by describing ACT as a "populist" party in world news.
The "populist" cat-call is being used a lot these days. Its often heard in the context of the US President. Now former NZ National Party...
rmacculloch
4 days ago4 min read
How NZ should be responding to the United States Trump Tariffs with the Aim of Making Kiwis Better Off
Foreign Minister Peters has a point. The NZ Prime Minister is getting hysterical & hot-under-the-collar about Trump's tariffs, seeing it...
rmacculloch
6 days ago2 min read
The US President calls former NZ PM Ardern & her ilk at Harvard's Kennedy School "radical left bird-brains only capable of teaching FAILURE".
Yesterday the US President lambasted Harvard University. He ordered its Federal funding to be cut. For those curious about the inner...
rmacculloch
7 days ago2 min read
China, Throw Down your Wall. Give Freedom to your people. Doing So Will Eliminate America's Trade Deficit with Your Nation and End the Tariffs.
Its easy to believe there's a world-wide Big Media frenzied conspiracy against the US, which our increasingly hysterical PM has jumped...
rmacculloch
Apr 164 min read
US Senator Bernie Sanders Symbolizes The Free Trade Hypocrites Becoming More Hysterical by the Day
Want to know why US left-wingers are looking stupid? This past week none other than US Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders has been hitting...
rmacculloch
Apr 153 min read
A Solution to NZ's Richest Man, Nick Mowbray's, Awful Billion $ Problem: Move your Factories to NZ and get a 10% Tariff, not China's 145% rate.
Oh dear, it must be keeping him up at night. Despite being worth over $20 billion, Zuru billionaire Nick Mowbray gave an interview with...
rmacculloch
Apr 152 min read
Who in the PM's National Party Caucus, including Luxon, is trying to Pervert the Course of Justice, Stripping Wronged Bank Customers of their legal right to sue to make the Big Banks Pay?
Why do we have a high cost of living? Because even when you break the law in NZ at the expense of your customers, the penalties are so...
rmacculloch
Apr 142 min read
How does NZ Labour compare to National on State Size?
Some readers of ours are writing to say that even though Prime Minister Luxon could not be bothered turning up to the single most...
rmacculloch
Apr 122 min read
The US President has united NZ (and World) Leftist Main Stream Media in an Embrace of Free Market Economics
For over a decade I tried, and failed, to persuade our politicians, media folks, and Kiwis more generally how free markets, competition &...
rmacculloch
Apr 113 min read
The PM Abrogates Leadership of NZ: Today he hid from Parliament whilst the Most Vital (Treaty) Issue Affecting our Economic Future was Debated.
This comment is far more about economics than politics. Today ACT's Treaty Principle's Bill was debated in Parliament and the Prime...
rmacculloch
Apr 103 min read
NZ Initiative Chairman Partridge gets his international economics wrong. Its worrying given the PM and Finance Minister's relationship with that outfit.
Usually commenting on a fringe think-tank would be a waste of time. But its worth doing so in the case of the NZ Initiative since its...
rmacculloch
Apr 94 min read
Why's Productivity Low in NZ? The HMNZS Manawanui's Inquiry Explains. Poor Leaders. Its Lousy CEOs, Bosses, Inbred Boards, Ministers, Admirals. Our Non-Human Systems Work Just Fine.
Want to know why productivity is low in NZ? Go read the report into "the circumstances that resulted in the loss of HMNZS MANAWANUI off...
rmacculloch
Apr 82 min read
Labour Leader Hipkins pretends on Newstalk that he's pro-free trade & pro-business (to get Auckland's vote).
The guy who locked down Auckland indefinitely during the pandemic, closed our borders so not one foreigner could enter, and even Kiwis...
rmacculloch
Apr 73 min read
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