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T he Blue Team is crowing again about a budget surplus. In three years time. They seem to have forgotten their promise three years ago was t...

"Nice supermarket chain you have here. Shame if something were to happen to it ... " W hen the Greens suggested a policy calling f...

T his Luxon-led Government is pro-business. That is to say, it's pro particular businesses. Particularly one that begins with an 'F...

" A s far as can be judged, there is no plan about how the cuts [in bureaucrat numbers] will work. ... The government mumbled about ‘ar...

UPDATE: Professor Robert MacCulloch : "It's a rigged budget ... so she can get a soundbite. ... Media got suckered." The prom...

W hile too many pundits still labour under the misapprehension that the primary job of government is to continue subsidising Wellington'...

" M uch of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded goo...

O ver the weekend, we were watching the recent George Orwell doco Orwell 2+2=5 on DocPlay . Worth it, except to the extent it (deliberately...

"[ W ]hen the pandemic hit Ardern and Robertson had a decision to make. Respond in a fiscally prudent manner or borrow seventy billion,...

"Look at me, I'm on a bus!" Second-prize winner in the "my council spends too much awards," Greater Wellington's...

T he New Zealand Government's gross debt — the amount taxpayers must service — will now increase by another $73b by 2029, reaching a mas...

I mportant to remember that on top of Chris Bishop's announcement this week of recommended changes to the Resource Management Act , unli...

  "T he Minister [of Finance] also used her speech to announce the launch of a Going for Growth website complete with a 44 page documen...

"B rief thoughts on [ the PMs'] 'State of the Nation' [speech] : Focus on economy is good. Saying 'economic growth'...

"M y reading of NZ Treasury's Half Year Economics & Fiscal Update 2024 is that little has changed since the government changed....

"[B ill] English had an Academic Advisory Group when he was Finance Minister, which included me. Willis dumped it. Her adviser outside ...

  "N ational was elected on the promise of fixing the economy. Not talking about it; but to deliver the goods. ... How is Finance Minis...