ANALYSIS: While New Zealand is geographically isolated, the aftershocks of recent global events will inevitably reach our shores.
ANALYSIS: 2022 was tumultuous. Will 2023 follow suit, or is there a little more certainty in the path ahead?
ANALYSIS: It seems as if I might have to work until lunchtime on the day of my funeral.
ANALYSIS: Is it too little, too late? The free-market economist in me says yes, although the RBNZ probably begs to differ.
ANALYSIS: The focus should be on increasing household income, not through government grants and subsidies.
ANALYSIS: Christoph Schumacher is not proposing to revolutionise tax system but add some economics to the debate.
ANALYSIS: Monetary policy not the only implement in our toolbox to bring inflation under control.
ANALYSIS: Inflation's a reverse Robin Hood, that steals from the poor to gives to the powerful.
ANALYSIS: Paul Volcker’s legendary attack on inflation led to deepest recession.
ANALYSIS: The funding-for-lending programme should never have got off the ground.