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Weekend reading for the Nats
Written By: - Date published: 9:02 am, August 3rd, 2015 - 14 comments
There were some good opinion pieces published over the weekend. Not comfortable reading for the Nats.
Oram on the regions
Written By: - Date published: 4:17 pm, July 27th, 2015 - 16 comments
Rod Oram looks at the way the regions are stifled in his Sunday Star Times piece.
National Debt cracks the ton
Written By: - Date published: 12:20 pm, July 20th, 2015 - 62 comments
The Crown has reached an unfortunate milestone and national debt now exceeds $100 billion.
The surplusgoround
Written By: - Date published: 2:18 pm, July 8th, 2015 - 56 comments
The on again off again surplus is on again. Key will be kicking himself for telling us all that we’re not interested in this artificial target.
There never was a rockstar
Written By: - Date published: 9:39 am, July 4th, 2015 - 92 comments
We’ve just seen the weakest quarterly growth in two years, and economists are warning of possible recession. The NZ economy needs to be fundamentally reshaped.
Inequality – Treasury report
Written By: - Date published: 7:22 am, June 29th, 2015 - 22 comments
Last week Treasury came out with a detailed and interesting report, Inequality in New Zealand 1983/84 to 2013/14. It is no surprise to find that the last Labour government acted to reduce inequality, the current National government has acted to increase it.
As the economy stalls it’s a great time to be a bank!
Written By: - Date published: 10:18 am, June 24th, 2015 - 34 comments
Ho ho – what am I saying? It’s always a great time to be a bank.
The death of trickle down economics and the mess we’re in
Written By: - Date published: 7:11 am, June 17th, 2015 - 139 comments
Trickle down economics is pronounced dead by the IMF. Housing, the working poor and the economy – the policy settings are wrong everywhere.
OECD sounding the alarm
Written By: - Date published: 10:26 am, June 10th, 2015 - 84 comments
Freeing up Auckland land for private development and sale at market rates isn’t going to cut it.
All our eggs in the dairy basket
Written By: - Date published: 12:27 pm, May 28th, 2015 - 157 comments
This government has been artificiality buoyed by a diary boom, now the bust leaves us highly exposed.
Mortgagee sales
Written By: - Date published: 10:14 am, May 25th, 2015 - 21 comments
A marked drop in mortgagee sales recently. Good news?
Oram on the budget and Treasury fantasies
Written By: - Date published: 7:09 am, May 25th, 2015 - 75 comments
Extracts from Rod Oram’s piece in the SST as posted on Facebook. “What’s missing from [the budget], and the six before, is any glimpse of the world we live in, let alone the political leadership we need to survive and thrive in it.”
Budget 2015 – A reactive budget
Written By: - Date published: 6:30 am, May 21st, 2015 - 161 comments
A panicked response to the Auckland property crisis. A welcome (albeit inadequate) adjustment to benefit rates. Public pressure is forcing action on the Left’s political agenda. Still no surplus, and no one believes the projected one next year. A reactive budget – there is no vision.
The surplus lie
Written By: - Date published: 10:30 am, May 14th, 2015 - 68 comments
One of the biggest political deceptions in our lifetime? Or just an honest mistake by our noble Finance Minister?
TPPA circling the drain
Written By: - Date published: 2:58 pm, May 13th, 2015 - 40 comments
As widely reported today, the TPPA has taken a probably fatal hit in the US Senate. Good riddance.
More jobs gone at Solid Energy – thanks Bill English
Written By: - Date published: 9:58 am, May 8th, 2015 - 11 comments
113 more jobs to go at Solid Energy’s Stockton Mine. Bill English killed Solid Energy, these job losses are his.
Housing and capital gains tax
Written By: - Date published: 10:02 am, April 18th, 2015 - 91 comments
This week the Reserve Bank recommended adopting the Labour / Green capital gains tax, the National party denied and dithered, and Don Brash explained the truth about the property bubble.
(Image credit Foxy.)
Key’s surplus excuses
Written By: - Date published: 7:23 am, April 14th, 2015 - 69 comments
Apparently this budget surplus that the Nats have been going on about for the last 6 years is an “artificial” target that is “like trying to land a 747 on a pin head”.
Bill English killed Solid Energy
Written By: - Date published: 8:46 am, April 3rd, 2015 - 96 comments
More economic genius from the Nats.
The “Brighter future”.
Written By: - Date published: 10:36 am, March 21st, 2015 - 34 comments
Labour, in 1984, with Richard Prebble and Roger Douglas, promised that if we adopted their prescription we would have a “Brighter Future”. Ruth Richardson in the 90’s promised a “Brighter Future”. Again in 2014 John Key’s National promises a “Brighter Future”.
A “Brighter Future”. For whom?
Guy Standing at AUT
Written By: - Date published: 12:31 pm, February 20th, 2015 - 4 comments
Prof Guy Standing is talking next Friday at 11am at AUT’s Auckland City Campus.
A calculated feeding of the beasts within
Written By: - Date published: 2:13 pm, February 5th, 2015 - 76 comments
The social democracy of my youth has radically collapsed into our current culture of individualism, privatisation and personal greed.
The lie about productivity and wages
Written By: - Date published: 12:30 pm, February 5th, 2015 - 49 comments
The Productivity Commission has a new report out which looks at changes in the labour income share, or LIS, from 1978 to 2010. The labour income share is described in the report’s summary as: The labour income share (LIS) measures the split of national income between workers who supply labour and the owners of capital. […]
SkyCity a nightmare for the Nats
Written By: - Date published: 11:15 am, January 12th, 2015 - 76 comments
Far from fading away into the Christmas haze, SkyCity looks likely to be one of the defining political issues for 2015.
A Punitive Climate of Fear
Written By: - Date published: 1:59 pm, January 9th, 2015 - 64 comments
Whatever the reason for a person’s disability if it is to such an extent that they cannot work we condemn them to a life of subsistence living with a big pay rise when, and if, they reach retirement age to 65% of the average wage!
On the economy and tax cut bribes
Written By: - Date published: 9:24 am, December 18th, 2014 - 9 comments
National are not responsible for the eventual recovery, they are responsible for delaying it.
ImperatorFish: “I said surface, not surplus”
Written By: - Date published: 2:15 pm, December 17th, 2014 - 7 comments
Scott examines Bill’s likely excuses for failing to deliver something National have promised since 2011
Surplus sunk
Written By: - Date published: 2:18 pm, December 16th, 2014 - 73 comments
The Nats are going to miss the only target they ever cared about hitting – the mythical surplus. Seven wasted years and counting…
Inequality – two excellent pieces
Written By: - Date published: 8:55 am, December 14th, 2014 - 65 comments
Inequality has been very much in the news recently. Friday saw the publication of two really excellent pieces that between them provide a comprehensive, if depressing overview.
Christmas at the extremes
Written By: - Date published: 10:24 am, December 13th, 2014 - 65 comments
Two New Zealands will shortly celebrate Christmas, the poor and the rich. Here’s a crazy thought…
None so blind
Written By: - Date published: 7:50 am, December 12th, 2014 - 181 comments
Message to today’s anonymous Herald editorialist – competition doesn’t close the inequality gap, it widens it. In other news, black is black not white, and water is wet. How can you write such drivel?
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