Bernard Hickey: Is Alan Bollard turning Japanese?
Slowly, but surely, Alan Bollard and the New Zealand economy are turning Japanese.
Slowly, but surely, Alan Bollard and the New Zealand economy are turning Japanese.
New Zealand is set to complete its free trade triumvirate with Greater China when it adds Chinese Taipei to this country's earlier deals with Beijing and Hong Kong.
The National government has given another soft-assurance it would go ahead with soft-compulsion for KiwiSaver, assuming it doesn't all get too hard in the next few years.
Our economy is not structurally sound.
Our top white-collar crime fighter can't afford to do silly things like the rest of us.