The Starmer-Reeves Government plans to fund the concessions they made to their revolting caucus have been deferred to the end of the year. The hints are that there may be a tax increase. It is not ...

We should not assume that all adopted innovations are p. Jonathon Haidt’s ‘The Anxious Generation’ illustrates that sometimes ...

The asymmetry between borrower and lender is well illustrated by Keynes telling the New Zealand Minister of Finance, William ...

One option is to cut back on maintenance of your capital – say, to delay repainting the house or keeping the car in tip-top condition. The government does the same. Hence our three water systems ...

The Minister of Housing’s ambition is to reduce markedly the ratio of house prices to household incomes. If his strategy works it would transform the housing market, dramatically changing the ...

How to run a successful pressure group. In 2013 a group of idealists, led by Jordan Williams and David Farrar, established the Taxpayers’ Union. To celebrate its first decade as surely New Zealand’s ...

The Government’s plans to remove the wellbeing provisions in the Public Finance Act represents a reversal of the way society is travelling.

While many of the world’s Christian religions seem preoccupied with personal issues that Jesus, their founder, barely touched upon, they must engage with economic issues too.

I was reminded of the importance of labour markets when reading Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo. A better title might be ...

Stein’s law says that if something cannot go on forever, it wont. But does a speculative bubble matter? The cryptocurrency bubble can be left to itself (tax evasion and criminal transactions aside).

Implementing the New Zealand Health and Disability System review not only involves major technical problems but creates fascinating political tensions.