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The New Zealand Government’s Covid-19 policy needs to directly boost capabilities in the health sector while providing the kind of appropriate economic support necessary when we’re all taking a lengthy staycation and some industries are put on ice. Uncertainty about the duration of this crisis makes deciding on the most suitable policy difficult. Read more

These are times like no other. Unless you are well over 80, you would not remember an existential and comprehensive crisis like this. Read more

Milton Friedman was wrong about the euro currency. Before its introduction, the godfather of monetarism predicted Europe’s monetary union would not survive its first recession. Read more

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. Or at least that's what Hunter S. Read more

In times of war, parts of the every-day rulebook for liberal democracies must be suspended. To protect personal and economic freedoms, in wartime governments must temporarily curb some of them. Read more

No one doubts the economic costs of lost jobs and income from Covid-19 will be substantial in the short run. But what can we know about the likely magnitude of those costs? Read more

The gloomy headlines say New Zealand just flagged its 28th case of coronavirus. Great. Read more

There were three things I was looking for in this week's pandemic budget announcement. I was not disappointed. Read more

It took a little while after the Christchurch earthquakes to wrap our heads around that a lot of the city would never be as it was. We had to adjust to the new normal. Read more