The Gabrielle flood and Grant Robertson’s budget, and all the future floods
Grant Robertson may be revising his budget because of this one flood; but he can’t lose sight of the wider…
Stephen Minto
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The fox trot to 3 waters is misdirection
Chris Trotters article, ‘The Privatisation two-step: Is three waters a masterpiece of mis-direction?’ had me in complete agreement over concern…
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GST is just a political tax. Scrap it.
The foundation for moving to GST was the neo-liberal economic fantasy; supply side economics. Free the entrepreneurs, the suppliers of…
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Greens inconsistency on housing shows their lack of strategic thinking
It was great to see the Greens with other groups calling for a rent freeze in Auckland. Landlords signalling big…
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The real ways to fight and defeat inflation
Labour is in the fight of its life over inflation. And so are the vast majority of New Zealanders. Labour…
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How to tax capital gains — a guide for Mr Hipkins
Conservative tax experts, or the self interested, when discussing the possibilities of taxing capital gains tend to welcome and emphasis…
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This is why Nicola Willis would be a terrible Minister of Finance for the New Zealand economy.
On National Radio ‘Morning Report’ 26 January, Nicola was interviewed about what National would do to control inflation. One of…
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Labour must take steps to control the economy.
The key issue to win the election is the economy but our neo-liberal economics mean government is only there to…
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Jacinda betrayed
I can understand why Jacinda feels she has no gas in the tank. She has not fixed so many difficult…
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Profit driven Inflation – Part 2
Back on 28 November 2022 my blog ‘The Cyclops Adrian Orr; and the real way to fix Inflation -Part 1’…