Speech – New Zealand Government Budget 2016 Pre-Budget Speech to Business New Zealand event Wellington Wednesday, 13 April 2016 Its good to be back here for my annual pre-Budget speech and I want to thank Business New Zealand for hosting me once again. This years Budget will …
Column – Gordon Campbell O ne of the defining features of this governments political style is how often Prime Minister John Key chooses to sound like a mere observer of political events. The public may think that they elected him to lead, and to be the captain on the …
Column – Gordon Campbell If the New Zealand economy was a tennis player, it would be Maria Sharapova a player reportedly reliant on artificial stimulants, and corporate endorsements. In similar vein, our economy is seemingly dependent on artificial boosts to activity …
Article – BusinessDesk Nov. 6 (BusinessDesk) – The Reserve Bank of New Zealand and its 11 counterparts in the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade and investment pact have agreed to avoid unfair currency manipulation as part of a regionwide push for greater cooperation, adopting …
Press Release – Reserve Bank Gabriel Makhlouf, Secretary to the Treasury and Graeme Wheeler, Governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand today welcomed the completion of a Declaration that will strengthen cooperation between the macroeconomic authorities in Trans Pacific Partnership …
Press Release – New Zealand Government Finance Minister Bill English leaves for Mexico City tomorrow before carrying on to Lima ahead of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Groups annual meetings in his capacity as a Governor of both institutions.
Press Release – TVNZ CORIN You will have heard some of those stories. Some pretty grim stuff talk of suicide, drastic impact. What can you offer to those people in those situations on those farms who are doing it really tough?
Column – Gordon Campbell As Chinas currency takes the down elevator towards the basement and after two days of decline no one knows how far down it will eventually go its hard to see any good news for New Zealand. Our main export commodity (dairy powder) has …
Opinion – Professor Jane Kelsey The global economy imploded in 2008 and confirmed a stark reality. Entire nations and billions of people are captives of an unstable and amoral economic system powered by finance , insurance and real estate FIRE. [1] New Zealand included.
Article – Francis Cook The Prime Minister today conceded he had gotten the numbers wrong about refugee intake on a radio interview this morning. Mr Key said there would be talks about raising the number but insisted that the cost runs up to $58m annually to settle refugees …
Press Release – iPredict The Official Cash Rate will be cut on 11 June and again by 10 December , according to the combined wisdom of the 8000+ registered traders on New Zealands predictions market, iPredict. Despite this, annual inflation is not expected to reach 2% until …
Column – Gordon Campbell As the New Zealand dollar edges towards parity with the Aussie dollar, it seems facile to treat this as some game of Transtasman arm-wrestling that yay, were winning. The political rhetoric is all about our economic strength versus their …
