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GOOD GRIEF

With no real economic strategy, the Prime Minister is playing a dangerous game.
Listener: 26 December, 2009.
Keywords: Political Economy & History;
The reason the Government is thought to have a secret agenda is that it has no agenda. It has instincts, and commitments to keep, including ones to those that helped elect it, such as the well-off, [...]

26th December 2009 | Comments Closed

SOCIAL SECURITY AND ACC

Concluding remarks for ‘The ACC Debate: How Do We Pay for ACC?’, sponsored by the ACC Group. 15 December 2009, Auckland.
Keywords: Social Policy;
I am honoured to be asked to attempt to make some concluding remarks to such an interesting conference, and privileged to follow Sir Owen Woodhouse. We are so fortunate that we still [...]

15th December 2009 | Comments Closed

THE COMPLETE PACKAGE

Sue Bradford’s departure leaves a huge gap in the Greens, and Parliament.
Listener: 12 December, 2009.
Keywords: Regulation & Taxation; Social Policy;
To work properly, the market must be “complete” – that is, all possible transactions must be able to be carried out. For example, those who invested in finance firms such as Bridgecorp should have been able [...]

12th December 2009 | Comments Closed