Economy
As the Government Is Learning, a ‘Wage Freeze’ Can Come with Unintended Consequences
Laura Meriluoto University of Canterbury Laura Meriluoto’s research interests include industrial organisation and network economics. She is currently doing research on the solutions to spam, existence advertising, email pricing and on-line auction design. You would be hard pressed to find an economist who would argue against the merits
Four in 10 Plan to Use Digital Currency for Payments within Year – Mastercard
rt.com The latest survey carried out by credit card giant Mastercard has revealed that nearly 40% of those polled are planning to use cryptocurrencies for payments within the next year. According to a survey titled ‘Consumer Appetite for Digital Payments Takes Off’, 67% stated that they are more open
Government Fair Pay Agreement Proposal Will Harm Workers and Consumers
Roger Partridge nzinitiative.org.nz The Government’s proposal announced Friday, May 7th to impose compulsory industry-wide collective bargaining on employees and employers without their agreement or even their participation will harm everyone but unions,” said Roger Partridge, chair of The New Zealand Initiative. Partridge said The New Zealand
Labour Government Walks the Tightrope
The government last week made two announcements that sent two completely different messages about workers’ rights. Their first announcement was a pay freeze across the public service. It was an announcement that most would expect to come from a conservative government. The only sign that it wasn’t from a
Why Now Would Be a Good Time for the Reserve Bank of New Zealand to Publish Stress Test Results for Individual Banks
Martien Lubberink Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Associate Professor Martien Lubberink completed his PhD in Economics at Groningen University. He has since worked at Lancaster University. After his sabbatical year at UNC Chapel Hill, Dr. Lubberink joined De Nederlandsche Bank, the central bank of the Netherlands. Set against
ACT Would Repeal Undemocratic Compulsory Unionism
David Seymour ACT Leader Compulsory unionism is undemocratic, will be a wrecking ball on the economy, and doesn’t solve any identified problem. Today’s proposal is far more radical than anything the Government has proposed before. It said it would initially be ‘one or two industries.’ Today’s proposal
Boris Tries His Vice Anglais on Australia
The French used to refer to sadomasochism as le vice Anglais, hinting that infant exposure to harshly disciplinarian nannies bestowed the English upper-classes with a fetish for sexual humiliation. Watching the sad decline of Prince Harry – once a hulking, military blue-blood, now a snivelling, wet ginger, a George
The US Government’s Debt-To-GDP Ratio Is Worse Than Greece’s before the 2008 Crash (And It’s about to Get Worse)
Jon Miltimore fee.org Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Bylines: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller,
Michael Woodhouse – Reallocating COVID Fund Irresponsible
Plans by the Government to reallocate $926 million of money unspent from the Covid Response and Recovery Fund is irresponsible and burdens future generations with even more debt than is necessary, National’s Finance spokesperson Michael Woodhouse says. Finance Minister Grant Robertson told a Wellington Chamber of Commerce audience this
Judith Collins – Cook Islands Bubble Should Only Be the Start
The Government should be much further down the road towards reconnecting New Zealand with the Pacific Islands than it currently is, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says. “I’m pleased the Cook Islands travel bubble finally has a start date, but the time it took to figure out quarantine-
Cooks Travel Bubble Almost a Year Too Late
David Seymour ACT Leader The Prime Minister’s paternalism of the Cook Islands has caused economic and emotional harm to our Pacific neighbours that will take years to fix. ACT was calling for a travel bubble with the Cooks in July last year. Here we are almost a year later
Cycleways or Hospitals?
Last Friday’s Face of the Day, Mark Dunajtschik, got me thinking. This is the man building and donating Wellington’s new children’s hospital. Dunajtschik, a property developer of considerable experience, and a philanthropist as well, expressed his surprise that NZTA (Waka Kotahi, which literally translates to ‘One Canoe’
Grant Robertson Overrides the Reserve Bank and the Treasury
Eliora Dr Brash, who led the Reserve Bank between 1988 and 2002 before going into politics, said it’s not the Reserve Bank’s job to fix the housing crisis. Newshub 29 April 21 Fixing a housing crisis is not part of the Reserve Bank’s remit. Kiwis have recently
More Certain Than Climate, Economic Doom
Has anyone noticed that there have not been any student protest marches during the school holidays despite a recent climate summit during the holidays? It’s almost as if the protests are really organised by adults with an agenda… If you enjoyed this Satirical image please share it so others