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Greeks facing a beggar's crossroads
As Greeks go to the polls they find themselves at a beggar's crossroads, one which leads to calamity in every direction, Brian Fallow writes.
As Greeks go to the polls they find themselves at a beggar's crossroads, one which leads to calamity in every direction, Brian Fallow writes.
Advice released under the Official Information Act reveals a Treasury sceptical of the case for targeting high-LVR investors in Auckland, writes Brian Fallow.
Auckland's net gain of 26,600 migrants in the past year boosted demand for housing in the city, writes Brian Fallow. But if you are talking about home ownership there are a lot more factors at play.
A land-buying agency with compulsory acquisition powers is the most radical of the Productivity Commission's proposals for dealing with Auckland's housing crisis.
If we want to resist the trends dividing New Zealanders into the haves and the never-wills, the OECD has some policy suggestions the Government could take on board.
To cut or not to cut? That is the question the Reserve Bank confronts ahead of next week's official cash rate decision, writes Brian Rudman.
A big economic call the Government has to make this year is what emissions target New Zealand will commit to for the 2020s, writes Brian Fallow.
There's a lot we just don't know about the Government's moves on tax and real estate, writes Brian Fallow. Trying to judge the likely impact on the Auckland market of the property taxation measure the Government announced on Sunday is one of those times.
For people other than residential property investors, Thursday's Budget is expected to be a nickel-and-dime affair, writes Brian Fallow.
Economics editor Brian Fallow says today's Reserve Bank move is crude, ad hoc and temporary - but it buys some time.
Much of the suspicion around the TPP agreement is fundamentally misconceived says international lawyer Gary Born.
So what if the track back to a fiscal surplus is proving longer and more uphill than it looked a year or even six months ago, asks Brian Fallow.
More innovative and flexible, more holistic and integrated, more devolved and decentralised, more empowering to those in need. Such are the ways in which the Productivity Commission believes the....
The case for taxing the income of residential property investors is compelling.
It seems the Government plans to rely heavily on a hoard of cheap, low-quality carbon credits to meet its current climate change target.
Better than nothing, but only just. The increase in funding for business research and development grants Prime Minister John Key announced yesterday looks even less impressive in light of numbers....
Economics editor Brian Fallow asks if the Reserve Bank's inflation target should be changed.
As people turned out to march against the Trans-Pacific Partnership last weekend, one of the issues exercising them was "investor-state dispute settlement" (ISDS).
Residential property investors look to be in the Reserve Bank's sights if it should opt later this year for another LVR-style intervention in the property market, writes Brian Fallow.
Is it right to pay more than the dole to wealthy superannuitants?
Drains and water mains are the ultimate out of sight, out of mind assets.
Enjoy low oil prices while they last, though how long that will be is anyone's guess, writes Brian Fallow.
Prime Minister John Key's negative reaction when Local Government New Zealand called for debate on the future funding of councils' activities was facile and myopic.
The belief is taking root, especially in the United States, that a historic decoupling has occurred between growth in labour productivity and workers' incomes.
New Zealand's trade accounts were in the red for the sixth month in a row in December, imports exceeding exports by $159 million or 3.6 per cent.
Greek voters have sent Europe's leaders a message: the austerity policy you have been pursuing in recent years is economically perverse, socially cruel and ultimately subversive.
Low inflation is one of those good things you can have too much of, writes Brian Fallow. A strong disinflationary tide is running in the global economy.
Businesses, consumers and economic forecasters agree: 2015 should be a reasonably good year - weaker than 2014 but still pretty good by the standards of the recent past.