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There were some good opinion pieces published over the weekend. Not comfortable reading for the Nats.
Rod Oram looks at the way the regions are stifled in his Sunday Star Times piece.
The Crown has reached an unfortunate milestone and national debt now exceeds $100 billion.
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.
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.
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.
Ho ho – what am I saying? It’s always a great time to be a bank.
Trickle down economics is pronounced dead by the IMF. Housing, the working poor and the economy – the policy settings are wrong everywhere.
Freeing up Auckland land for private development and sale at market rates isn’t going to cut it.
This government has been artificiality buoyed by a diary boom, now the bust leaves us highly exposed.
A marked drop in mortgagee sales recently. Good news?
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.”
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.
One of the biggest political deceptions in our lifetime? Or just an honest mistake by our noble Finance Minister?
As widely reported today, the TPPA has taken a probably fatal hit in the US Senate. Good riddance.
113 more jobs to go at Solid Energy’s Stockton Mine. Bill English killed Solid Energy, these job losses are his.
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.
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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”.
More economic genius from the Nats.
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?
Prof Guy Standing is talking next Friday at 11am at AUT’s Auckland City Campus.
The social democracy of my youth has radically collapsed into our current culture of individualism, privatisation and personal greed.
The Productivity Commission has a new report out which looks at changes in the labour income share, or LIS, from 1978 to 2010. […]
Far from fading away into the Christmas haze, SkyCity looks likely to be one of the defining political issues for 2015.
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!
National are not responsible for the eventual recovery, they are responsible for delaying it.
Scott examines Bill’s likely excuses for failing to deliver something National have promised since 2011
The Nats are going to miss the only target they ever cared about hitting – the mythical surplus. Seven wasted years and counting…
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.
Two New Zealands will shortly celebrate Christmas, the poor and the rich. Here’s a crazy thought…
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?
The lied about surplus in the run up to the 2014 National Election is looking like matching Penn and Teller for magical skills. […]
Right-wingers recently got all hot and bothered about the idea of “recall elections”. Perhaps we do need them, not for the scandal of a Mayor having a bathroom, but for governments that systematically and cynically deny the truth, to the detriment of us all.
Colin James has an excellent piece on the housing market. Simon Collins has a piece on the implications on young renters. Meanwhile, a number of other big problems are being ignored by National as well.
Rob Salmond notes the OECD report saying the West – and New Zealand more than any – have had their growth held back by income inequality. Do we have a government willing to do anything about it?
