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An update on the odds on a serious recession

We explained in our November research report "Walking the Path to the Next Global Financial Crisis" why concerns about prolonged economic stagnation, or even serious recessions, should be taken seriously. During the 2008-2010 global financial crisis, governments' responses had turned a banking crisis into a public debt crisis. Read more

Dr Bryce Wilkinson ONZM

Insights Newsletter

3 June, 2022

Fair Pay Agreement reform remains a lemon

New Zealand has been living with the prospect of a return to compulsory, sector-wide collective bargaining for nearly half a decade. Labour campaigned on its so-called ‘Fair Pay Agreement’ policy in 2017. Read more

Roger Partridge

NZ Herald

31 May, 2022

Oliver Hartwich joins Martyn Bradbury on his weekly podcast

In his weekly podcast, Martyn Bradbury discusses the issues of the week with David Seymour, Damien Grant and Oliver Hartwich.

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Dr Oliver Hartwich

The Working Group Weekly Political Podcast

30 May, 2022

Podcast: The supermarket study – Foodstuffs’ perspective

Oliver Hartwich and Eric Crampton interview Foodstuffs North Island’s CEO Chris Quin and Independent Director Peter Schuyt about the Commerce Commission’s enquiry into the grocery retail sector. To listen to our latest podcasts, please subscribe to The New Zealand Initiative podcast on iTunes, Spotify or The Podcast App. Read more

Dr Oliver Hartwich

Dr Eric Crampton

Chris Quin, Peter Schuyt

Podcast

27 May, 2022

How central banking lost its way

Three bits of news from the world of finance and central banking this week: The Reserve Bank increased the cash rate by 50 basis points. A HSBC manager in Britain has been suspended for criticising climate-based financial regulations at a conference. Read more

Dr Oliver Hartwich

Insights Newsletter

27 May, 2022

“Grant Robertson” defends Budget 2022

Fevered with Covid and isolated in a Te Anau motel, I imagined the following interview. Q: Finance Ministers traditionally urge people to be prudent – not to borrow to invest in shares. Read more

Dr Bryce Wilkinson ONZM

Insights Newsletter

27 May, 2022

Picking off poorly performing regulators

The GFC had many casualties. In New Zealand, one was the former Securities Commission. Read more

Roger Partridge

Insights Newsletter

27 May, 2022

Oliver Hartwich on housing in New Zealand

Oliver Hartwich talks to Michael Laws, The Platform about housing in New Zealand. He comments on a range of issues including affordability, building costs and the supply of materials, local government, land supply and land zoning, and interest rates. Read more

Dr Oliver Hartwich

The Platform NZ - Michael Laws

26 May, 2022

Reasssessing the regulators cover website

Reassessing the Regulators: The good, the bad and the Commerce Commission

Commercial regulatory agencies wield enormous power. They can take away a business’s licence to operate; impose restrictions on how it operates; and take enforcement action by exercising powers of interrogation, search and seizure that the police can only dream of. Read more

Roger Partridge

Research Report

24 May, 2022

Media release: Reform needed as Commerce Commission suffers alarming slide in regulatory performance

Wellington (Tuesday, 24 May 2022) – Respect for New Zealand’s commercial regulators has declined over the past four years, research by think tank The New Zealand Initiative reveals. Among the regulators whose influence is felt across the entire economy, the decline in the Commerce Commission’s previously poor performance is the most alarming revelation in the Initiative’s new report, Reassessing the regulators – The Good the Bad and the Commerce Commission. Read more

Media release

24 May, 2022

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