

Economic update July 2023
RBNZ holds 5.5% interest rate and explores digital currency further. Consumer prices rise while milk and property prices drop.


RBNZ holds 5.5% interest rate and explores digital currency further. Consumer prices rise while milk and property prices drop.


$400 million fund to help make homes affordable is not meeting objectives.


An angry and divided nation is partly the result of the Government’s failure to be upfront about the co-governance agenda.


New technologies that remove central control promote a censorship-resistant web.


The broadening definition of Māori is different for different purposes.


Mental health deserves sympathy, but maybe not control of the country.


Long Covid doesn’t have a firm definition, but it does have about 200 symptoms.


The wealth tax is 7 times the rate in Norway. The rich are leaving Norway, in response to the increased rate.


The Crown agencies appear slow on both approving and funding new medicines.