ANALYSIS: : After a difficult year, New Zealand enters 2026 with the foundations for a slow, steady recovery, with cautious optimism.
ANALYSIS: Exploring the relationship between our government and the Reserve Bank.
OPINION: It is not by chasing elusive billionaires.
ANALYSIS: The incompatible demands of OCR, GDP growth rate, employment figures, and inflation value.
ANALYSIS: Overlapping crises of the past few years have ended trajectory of creating and consuming more stuff every year.
ANALYSIS: What’s more pressing – the NZ banking sector and the ripples of a potential banking crisis reaching our shores or a negative quarterly GDP growth rate and the impact on unemployment?
OPINION: Key to future prosperity is to future-proof businesses now as we navigate that recession.
ANALYSIS: If New Zealand switches to a future-proof ‘build-better’ approach we will seize rather than lose opportunities.
ANALYSIS: An outright statement that increasing the floor of what workers can earn will create pressure on prices and lead to further inflation is short-sighted.
ANALYSIS: A closer look at how inflation is measured.