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Tom Frewen's latest column seems to have somehow slipped through the usually rigourous editorial process at the NBR. The sidebar reads: "John Key's lyrics sound like the gobbledygook of Bushisms". "Yeah, I mean look, the truth is, with the greatest respect to Rodney, he doesn't…
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The Labour Cost Index rose a record 3.4% for the March year. That means wages and salaries for doing the same job rose an average of 3.4% over the year. Public sector wages were up 3.3% and private sector wages up 3.5%. Retail and other…
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Wat Tyler at KBB has an interesting comment on Agenda's dreadful panel discussion yesterday: Agenda on Sunday was awful. The panelists didn't want to listen to the people they were interviewing (both Russell Norman and David Parker did very well) and had their own agendas…
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The Government has bought back the rail stock and ferries from Toll for $655 million. The privatisation of these vital assets, which are also natural monopolies, by National was a disaster from Day 1. National flogged the railways and the ferries off dirt cheap to…