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Going Down? Governments also suffer in recessions and depressions – just like their citizens. Slowing economic activity means fewer companie...

The Age-Old Question: The idea of laying a solid floor of wages and conditions beneath the feet of workers in industries notorious for enga...

Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis: For many – perhaps most – people, the word ‘equity” is a synonym for the word “equality”. And, to be fair, th...

They Did This: On March 27th 1939, Michael Joseph Savage opened the new Social Security building. Built in just 7 weeks, the new structure ...

Make Her An Offer She Can't Refuse: Expecting Jacinda and her colleagues to break their promise not to introduce a Wealth Tax is not on...

Transformers: The disaster of the Great Depression was transformed into a new and fairer society by the democratic socialism of the First...

Together:  In leading New Zealand through the Covid-19 Pandemic, the Prime Minister could do a lot worse than allow herself to be guided ...

Joining The Fight: Stevan Eldred-Grigg's argument for New Zealand staying out of the Second World War fails not only on the hard-hea...

Lotto - Oops, I Mean KiwiBuild Ballot - Winners:  Derryn Jayne and Fletcher Ross  pose with Phil Twyford and Jacinda Ardern outside their...

"Feed My Sheep": At some point in just about every Sunday service, Christian congregations recite the Lord’s Prayer. God’s wil...

Change Agents?  Grant Robertson’s economic orthodoxy bodes ill for the expectations of Labour, NZ First and Green Party followers that Ja...

Economics Matters: The jubilation of Election Night 1984 was soon overtaken by the economic and social blitzkrieg that was Rogernomics. ...

Greed Meets Fear: A New York stockbroker attempts to keep pace with the vertiginous slide in the Dow Jones Index following China's ...