This is edition 2025/100 of the Ten@10 newsletter.
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This is the Ten@10, where I collate and summarise ten news items you generally won't see in the mainstream media.
Enjoy!
1. The 2025 NBR Rich List once again shows who runs this country
Bryce Edwards
- 💰 The NBR Rich List highlights extreme wealth concentration in NZ.
- 📈 Wealth of top 119 families reaches $102.1 billion, up from $95.55 billion.
- 🏠 Property and rent-seeking dominate wealth creation, exacerbating housing crisis.
- 📜 Policy wishlist includes easier foreign property ownership and corporate tax cuts.
- 🛩️ Political influence via donations and lobbying shapes policy to benefit the wealthy.
- 🌍 Disparity: Ultra-rich live in luxury while average Kiwis struggle with living costs.
- 🚫 Phillip Mills advocates for capital gains tax and warns against crony capitalism.
- 🗳️ Reform suggestions: Tax reform, campaign finance rules, lobbying regulation.
- 🌱 Shift narrative: Challenge myth of wealthy as sole "wealth creators".
