Comment Let’s vote to re-engineer our cities To really achieve change, climate change protesters should be voting in their droves in the council elections due to close this Saturday. Oct 09 2019 Bernard Hickey
Politics MMP’s biplanes will shoot Jones’ King Kong Infrastructure Minister Shane Jones describes NZ First’s idea of moving the Auckland port to Northland as the ‘King Kong’ of projects - but MMP’s weaponisation of vested interests will shoot the idea down. Oct 07 2019 Bernard Hickey
Economy It’s time Robertson became Orr’s mate Finance Minister Grant Robertson should signal a loosening of Government borrowing and investment restraints on Tuesday to help the Reserve Bank revive confidence, economic growth and inflation, Bernard Hickey argues. Oct 07 2019 Bernard Hickey
Podcast: Two Cents' Worth Banks on notice over ‘No Paywave’ dysfunction NZ has fallen behind Australia and Britain in using contactless payments and retailers are revolting. Now the Government may have to regulate fees directly. Oct 07 2019 Bernard Hickey
Corporate Banks on notice over ‘No Paywave’ dysfunction What’s the story behind those “no paywave” stickers? Oct 04 2019 Bernard Hickey
Economy Government releases ‘Economic Plan’ The Government has included two small tax changes with its 32 page ‘Economic Plan’ that paints a big picture for economic and wellbeing transformation. Sep 24 2019 Bernard Hickey
Government Regulators’ soggy bus ticket didn’t work Surprise, surprise. The waving of a wet bus ticket did little to encourage New Zealand’s life insurers to behave better. Sep 18 2019 Bernard Hickey
Week in Review Young renters just got double toasted NZ’s tyranny of the status quo under MMP just killed off KiwiBuild, the last great hope of our lumpen mass of young renters. Sep 05 2019 Bernard Hickey
Week in Review Glimmers of hope amid the magical thinking National wants to lower taxes and improve publicly provided infrastructure, health and education simultaneously. Bernard Hickey spies a few glimmers of hope amid the magical thinking. Aug 27 2019 Bernard Hickey
Week in Review What if money really did fall from the sky? If the Government gave everyone an extra $1000 to spend, would we all be better off? Bernard Hickey looks into the theory of helicopter money. Aug 26 2019 Bernard Hickey
Housing Lecturing councils won’t work for Labour either Just like its National predecessor, this Labour-led Government is trying to lecture councils into growing the ‘right’ kinds of cities without giving them the funding tools or help to do it. Aug 22 2019 Bernard Hickey
Comment The day the Fonterra dream finally died Farmers will now debate a break-up to halve Fonterra’s size to around $6 billion, and to slash the $49 billion of debt owed by both farmers and the co-operative. Bernard Hickey analyses the latest big loss. Aug 13 2019 Bernard Hickey
Economy Why Orr prefers negative interest rates to QE The Reserve Bank is more actively thinking about what it should do if the official cash rate gets to zero percent. What are its options? Aug 12 2019 Bernard Hickey
Comment A mounting fiscal stimulus problem Central bankers around the world need their Governments to abandon austerity to both stimulate and re-engineer their economies to massively improve productivity, housing affordability and climate emissions. Bernard Hickey explains a global and local problem. Aug 08 2019 Bernard Hickey
Newsroom Pro Milestones: Shane to meet Shayne; RBNZ bill; Kensington Swan merger Shane Jones to meet ANZ CEO Shayne Elliott; Whaleoil shuts down; RBNZ issues Financial Market Infrastructure draft bill; KensingtonSwan to merge with Dentons Aug 02 2019 Bernard Hickey
Media monitoring Bernard’s pick of the news links NIMBYs blocking Dominion Rd flats; Why won’t Bridges and Robertson talk about productivity?; Westland Council’s secret crisis meeting; DHBs $264m in deficit; John Lanchester on the history of fractional reserve banking and fiat currencies My eight... Aug 02 2019 Bernard Hickey
People moves People on the move this week Tevita Funaki named Pacific Business Trust Chair; Andrew Dallas named ERA Chief; Parker sees fewer QCs named this year Aug 02 2019 Bernard Hickey
Diary Coming up: US jobs; Rate cut; Jobs data; Brexit US jobs data is on Saturday morning; Jacinda Ardern’s post-cabinet news conference is on Monday afternoon; NZ jobs and wages figures are on Tuesday morning; Parliament resumes on Tuesday afternoon; RBNZ is seen cutting the OCR on Wednesday afternoon. Aug 02 2019 Bernard Hickey
One fun thing One fun thing: Trump vs script Donald Trump shouldn’t surprise us anymore, but somehow he does. This time it’s over his relationship with a teleprompter. It’s quite the thing. Aug 02 2019 Bernard Hickey
Economic weather Economic weather report The Fed cuts for the first time since GFC, but not enough for markets; Australian house prices bottom out Aug 02 2019 Bernard Hickey
