It Is Now Official
Behind all the hot air from the PM and finance minister, National is running a bigger borrow-and-spend government than six years of Ardern and Robertson.
Economy
Call In the Bailiffs
How the NZ Government’s Green Investment Fund turned itself into an unpleasant predatory lender and debt collection agency.
They Are Out of Control
There are solutions. The way councils manage projects seems to be designed to make everything cost at least twice as much.
The Need to Make Bigger Cuts
The government has been fiddling around the edges; the opposition are living in cloud cuckoo land as they moan about cuts.
The Case for the F-35 Fifth Generation Stealth Fighter
Though the tide of sentiment is against manned aircraft, there is an argument favoring them.
Tick Tock
The cost will continue to be passed to future generations and then future generations beyond that etc, until it blows up in everyone’s faces.
The Green Investment Fund Should Be Liquidated
Turns out its “cornerstone partner” was not made of stone, but subject to liquefaction.
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.
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.