Posts on the economy, work, business, income, and labour
Written By: - Date published: 2:28 pm, May 18th, 2025 - 4 comments
Another science fund bites the dust in New Zealand.
Written By: - Date published: 9:54 am, May 15th, 2025 - 49 comments
An economy for the people, by the people.
Written By: - Date published: 8:59 am, May 15th, 2025 - 24 comments
Louisa Wall eviscerates Government claims about pay equity.
Written By: - Date published: 10:22 am, May 13th, 2025 - 70 comments
Future historians may consider Nicola Willis to be the country’s worst Finance Minister, even worse than Rob Muldoon and Ruth Richardson.
Written By: - Date published: 7:00 am, May 12th, 2025 - 45 comments
New Zealand was once in a sustained Australasian partnership. Now, with New Zealand tracking further and further into policy extremes, Australia – and our children – are leaving New Zealand behind.
Written By: - Date published: 10:47 am, May 11th, 2025 - 24 comments
Following on from the undermining under urgency of the current Pay Equity scheme the Government intends to introduce the Regulatory Standards Bill which if passed would have a significant adverse effect on collective rights and environmental action.
Written By: - Date published: 10:13 am, May 10th, 2025 - 58 comments
When the history of the sixth National Government is written I am confident that the events of this week when the Pay Equity system was smashed up will be described as the the beginning of the end.
Written By: - Date published: 2:08 pm, May 8th, 2025 - 20 comments
David Parker’s Deputy Leader ‘s speech in 2014 at the Wellington Labour Party Conference was the best I ever heard from a Labour Leader. Vision matched values in intensity and scope. Parliament now loses one of its very best.
Written By: - Date published: 9:27 am, May 7th, 2025 - 27 comments
Christopher Luxon yesterday tried to claim that budgetary considerations were not the reason for repealing the Pay Equity Legislation even though David Seymour had said that the monetary savings from the bill would save the Budget.
Written By: - Date published: 5:47 pm, May 2nd, 2025 - No comments
When John Oliver isn’t ragging on New Zealand, he and his writers have a keen senses in explaining complex topics clearly. He did one long section a couple of weeks ago that took apart the Trumpian view on the economic value of tariffs. Worth watching.. But first about that monkey image
Written By: - Date published: 5:17 pm, May 1st, 2025 - 39 comments
New Zealanders should be in control of our economy, our jobs and our future. We don’t need to leave our fate to be decided by international shareholders
Written By: - Date published: 7:56 pm, April 24th, 2025 - 36 comments
Seven cross-party New Zealand politicians have just paid a “private” visit to Taiwan. They were received publicly by the Taiwanese government, who paid for the trip. In the current geopolitical environment, it was extraordinarily foolish.
Written By: - Date published: 11:52 am, April 22nd, 2025 - 10 comments
“Let us not be afraid to say it: we want change, real change, structural change. The system has imposed the mentality of profit at any price, with no concern for social exclusion or the destruction of nature.”
Written By: - Date published: 11:26 pm, April 16th, 2025 - 12 comments
Nick Mowbray, who has supported and promoted a number of right wing causes, finds himself losing out big time because of Donald Trump’s tariffs. And is complaining.
Written By: - Date published: 7:00 pm, April 14th, 2025 - 82 comments
It looks like the three way marriage made in hell is on the rocks.
Written By: - Date published: 5:40 pm, April 13th, 2025 - 7 comments
A recent run on US Government bonds showing possible coordination between different countries may have been the reason that Donald Trump walked back the worst of his tariff changes. And he has also realised the US can’t make cheap IPhones.
Written By: - Date published: 3:28 pm, April 11th, 2025 - 19 comments
There is a method to Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff madness. The chaos and confusion is deliberate; the aim is nothing less than the controlled disintegration of the world economy, writes Elliot Crossan. The eyes of the world are on Donald Trump once again. The world’s most successful attention-seeker has us all transfixed. It’s a story […]
Written By: - Date published: 8:50 am, April 11th, 2025 - 29 comments
Faced with an inability to fund the the US government debt, Donald Trump halted his insane rush to toward a global depression. However the political system in the US that produced this global economic insanity is still there and is still nonfunctional. Time to disengage and let the US time to heal itself.
Written By: - Date published: 10:57 am, April 8th, 2025 - 3 comments
Headlines: NZD free falls, misleading Green Party attack ads linked to NZ First, making NZDF lethal, and American billionaires regret support for Trump
Written By: - Date published: 8:05 am, April 6th, 2025 - 68 comments
All the fools supporting hard right political leadership will now be reminded of what they signed up for.
Written By: - Date published: 9:49 am, April 5th, 2025 - 36 comments
In an era of weaponised tariffs, crumbling institutions, and trade policy made on the campaign trail, New Zealand’s long game is trust, credibility, and coherence.
If we choose to play it.
Written By: - Date published: 1:43 pm, April 3rd, 2025 - 52 comments
While 10% is at the lower end of this unjustified tax, it is very serious for our whole NZ economy.
Written By: - Date published: 3:34 pm, March 27th, 2025 - 23 comments
A response to right wing commentator Matthew Hooton.
Written By: - Date published: 7:04 am, March 25th, 2025 - 41 comments
In what looked like an early election campaign launch Winston Peters has done his old man shaking his fist at the sky tirade against everything woke.
Written By: - Date published: 9:57 am, March 23rd, 2025 - 96 comments
Res Publica takes aim at modern day ‘tankies’. Pro-authoritarian leftist, who can apologise for any authoritarian regime provided that it is intellectually cloaked in the ‘correct’ rhetoric and a veneer of geo-politics. In their view, modern day tankies are only good at reducing the left’s credibility to rubble in real-time.
Written By: - Date published: 11:10 am, March 22nd, 2025 - 14 comments
We’re good, but we know we want better leadership.
Written By: - Date published: 12:20 pm, March 20th, 2025 - 20 comments
The first liquidator’s report on Libelle Group Limited suggests the company was hopelessly incapable of performing its role in providing the National-Act Government’s version of school lunches.
Written By: - Date published: 4:52 pm, March 19th, 2025 - 73 comments
The world is in turmoil as political and economic uncertainty grow, and as conflict spreads. How the Left prepares for the next decade is a pressing challenge.
Written By: - Date published: 7:30 am, March 19th, 2025 - 14 comments
Over the last year, the Coalition has unleashed a series of cuts which have been devastating for the disabled community. These cuts are part of a class war — and it’s time to organise and fight back, writes Elliot Crossan.
Written By: - Date published: 8:14 pm, March 15th, 2025 - 13 comments
By pursuing cuts, selling off assets to multinationals, enabling ACT’s attacks on the Treaty and cutting back on climate commitments, Luxon is guaranteeing that NZ will not be stable for long, writes Elliot Crossan.
Written By: - Date published: 1:03 pm, March 14th, 2025 - 46 comments
Luxon’s team have delivered zero deals out of the multibillionaire conference on infrastructure. This is a fail.
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