Robertson beats Treasury’s forecasts
Go back eight months; the country was in lockdown, and Treasury produced a series of economic scenarios sketching how Covid might play out. The most...
David Parker’s big oppurtunity
David Parker’s seemingly odd decision to request the Revenue portfolio from the Prime Minister when she appointed her new Cabinet now makes sense. The Briefings...
How our trade negotiators will navigate the post Trump, post covid, new green world.
It sounds simple. Trump goes; vaccines neutralise Covid, and by the end of next year, foreign trade is back to what we used to...
Robertson considering crackdown on property investors
The Finance Minister’s letter to the Reserve Bank yesterday about rising house prices is just a part of what is a much wider Government...
“This crisis is too big; we cannot wait any longer”
Housing Minister Megan Woods sat backstage at the Infrastructure New Zealand symposium yesterday and heard a damning indictment of her Government's housing policies coming...
China and NZ are in but the US is out of world’s second largest...
New Zealand and 15 East Asian countries yesterday signed up to what is being called the most important trade agreement since the creation of...
How Ardern is trying to tame the housing market
The Prime Minister’s strategy of “jawboning” the banks into restricting lending for housing investment was beginning to look like it was working last night...
National abandons tax cuts
Judith Collins appointment of Andrew Bayly to a new role as National's Treasurer spokesperson would seem to bring an end to over ten years...
Ardern turns to business
If you want to measure how much this Government is different to the last consider this. Almost exactly three years ago, on November 8, 207,...
The debate we didn’t have
The statistic that National had hoped would come out before the election appeared yesterday and confirmed that not only are we in a recession...
It could have been worse
Jacinda Ardern and Grant Robertson were able to breathe a massive sigh of relief yesterday. The figure for the June quarter GDP showed a fall...
Has National’s moment come?
The election campaign will now turn to the economy with Treasury yesterday publishing forecasts showing that the economic hangover from Covid-19 could stretch out...
Parker hints at Tiwai Point survival
Environment Minister David Parker is now hinting that the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter may be able to survive. New Zealand Aluminium Smelters (NZAS),smelter at...
National tries to cheat the debt target
National’s proposal yesterday for an infrastructure bank will have the effect of cheating the Government accounting system to make it look like it is...
Covid “here for some time” say Ardern and Collins
In a rare mood of consensus both the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, and the Opposition Leader, Judith Collins, yesterday both warned that Covid 19...
