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![<i>Brian Fallow:</i> Time on Bollard's side](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=815)
<i>Brian Fallow:</i> Time on Bollard's side
If Alan Bollard's interest rate decision today had needed a theme song, it would have been the Rolling Stones' "Time is on my side."
![<i>Brian Fallow</i>: Income splitting hardest on poor](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=815)
<i>Brian Fallow</i>: Income splitting hardest on poor
Peter Dunne's bill is unfair, unaffordable and unlikely to happen, writes Brian Fallow.
![<i>Brian Fallow</i>: Broadband plan raises uneasy questions](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=815)
<i>Brian Fallow</i>: Broadband plan raises uneasy questions
Will this be a conspiracy against the consumer?
![<i>Brian Fallow:</i> Bollard still expects 'respectable' growth](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=815)
<i>Brian Fallow:</i> Bollard still expects 'respectable' growth
Bollard's statement carried a thinly veiled warning about the consequences of passing on GST increases.
![<i>Brian Fallow</i>: Super age alternatives need debate](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=815)
<i>Brian Fallow</i>: Super age alternatives need debate
Let's assume for the sake of argument that people are more open to the idea of a later age of retirment eligibility than they give us credit for.
![<i>Brian Fallow</i>: Do we even need ultra-fast broadband?](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=815)
<i>Brian Fallow</i>: Do we even need ultra-fast broadband?
It may be a solution that will not work to a problem that does not really exist.
![<i>Brian Fallow</i>: Winners and losers in ETS wealth shift](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=815)
<i>Brian Fallow</i>: Winners and losers in ETS wealth shift
Over the next two and a half years the emissions trading scheme will effect a substantial transfer of wealth.
![<i>Brian Fallow :</i> A lot of assumptions in OCR move](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=815)
<i>Brian Fallow :</i> A lot of assumptions in OCR move
For borrowers the Reserve Bank's statement makes dispiriting reading...
![<i>Brian Fallow:</i> Rates going up but where's the ceiling?](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=815)
<i>Brian Fallow:</i> Rates going up but where's the ceiling?
Brian Fallow writes that several factors will influence how often Bollard taps the brakes.