The Finance Minister’s Solution to Big Banks?
To make you pay for dirty deals that sell out three million KiwiSaver holders. Labour did the same.
Economy
The IMF Confirms That Hipkins Put NZ at the Bottom in 2023
Whatever new PM Chris Luxon’s faults, anything is an improvement on Chris Hipkins and the country’s worst finance minister ever, Grant Robertson, as well as former PM Ardern.
The RBNZ’s November ‘Monetary Policy Statement’ Is a Crock
Can’t the Reserve Bank stop putting itself up and the nation (and world) down with its distorted drivel – so NZ can unite, fix its problems, move on and start booming?
How Javier Milei Explains His Economic Philosophy
Three highlights from Milei’s interview with Lex Fridman.
Fascism Comes to New Zealand
Until the last four years it has been possible for the media to maintain the belief that New Zealand is a democracy with free speech, but the dictates of Big Pharma have made it increasingly difficult to maintain this illusion.
Holiday Reading Advice for Finance Minister Willis
Go buy a book on ‘expansionary fiscal contractions’.
Bird Flu: Let the Great Culling Begin
Who benefits from mass culling? Who profits from endless and increasing reliance on vaccines? And most importantly, why aren’t alternative solutions being seriously considered?
Westpac Chief Backs Us Up
And regards the RBNZ paying lip service to Finance Minister Willis’ amended Reserve Bank Act.
Why National Is Sweating Bricks
With every one of the Key-era drivers of the economy stripped away, all the PM and his finance minister can do is make vague references as to how new infrastructure may improve things.
Do They Rue Choosing Bureaucrats Over Customers?
Duggan Flanakin Duggan Flanakin is a senior policy analyst with the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow. Whatever happened to the old bit of business wisdom: the customer is always right? US and European automakers abandoned this mantra to please unelected bureaucrats in Brussels, New York, and Doha and the sycophants
The Problems With Property Taxes
If you are paying to live on your own property, you don’t really own it at all. Especially given that the government has the authority to evict you and sell it off if you fail to pay the property taxes.
What National Should Have Done
These policies are called disruptive. Had they been done, NZ would be in a boom now and National on the way to a landslide win in Election 2026.
Pull Down the Blinds
When electricity was cheap, and no one had to hide behind the blinds or cook dinner after 9pm, the coal-fired grid had a 21 per cent reserve plant margin. Australia is transitioning to third-world status.