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Kerre McIvor: We need to raise the superannuation age (Photo / Getty) Tue, 6 Jul 2021, 12:09PM The sound of flapping you hear in the air is the sound of all our chickens coming home to roost.  Treasurys most recent analysis of the Governments long term finances sees the country facing an interminable cycle of debt and deficits, with debt levels rising to more than two trillion dollars in 40 years if it doesnt get the costs of an ageing population under control.  The cost i...

Dileepa Fonseka05:00, Jun 05 2021 ROBERT KITCHIN/Stuff Judith Collins consoles Sharareh Khojasteh and her son Daniel Ahmadvand (right) during a protest outside Parliament for split migrant families. OPINION: Accountants are good people to blame when you run out of anybody else to. Still, I find it odd to be blaming this accountant I met at a recent migrant protest for the low-productivity situation we find ourselves in. The word ‘productivity’ has been rearing its head recently, but not t...

More New Zealanders spend more of their lives working than people in other countries, and once again house prices are to blame.

Press Release – Finder A slew of banks have moved their fixed loan rates in both directions in recent weeks, yet experts believe further rate changes could still be on the cards. In this months Finder RBNZ Official Cash Rate Survey , 13 experts and economists weighed in on future … A slew of banks have moved their fixed loan rates in both directions in recent weeks, yet experts believe further rate changes could still be on the cards. In this month’s Finder RBNZ Official Cash Rate Survey...

Tuesday, 25 May 2021, 10:46 am A slew of banks have moved their fixed loan rates in both directions in recent weeks, yet experts believe further rate changes could still be on the cards. In this month’s Finder RBNZ Official Cash Rate Survey, 13 experts and economists weighed in on future official cash rate (OCR) moves and other issues related to the state of New Zealand’s economy. While all experts surveyed predict the OCR to remain at 0.25% this month, over half of those who weighed in (58...

Press Release – Finder A slew of banks have moved their fixed loan rates in both directions in recent weeks, yet experts believe further rate changes could still be on the cards. In this month’s Finder RBNZ Official Cash Rate Survey, 13 experts and economists weighed in on future official cash rate (OCR) moves and other issues related to the state of New Zealand’s economy. While all experts surveyed predict the OCR to remain at 0.25% this month, over half of those who weighed in (58%, 7/1...

Hamish Rutherford: Political pressure rising on a political Reserve Bank 28 Apr, 2021 05:27 AM 5 minutes to read Finance Minister Grant Robertson and Reserve Bank governor Adrian Orr in 2018. Photo / Mark Mitchell. OPINION: Precisely who is in charge when the Reserve Bank decides to restrict lending in the name of maintaining financial stability has been hard to pin down for a long time. Back in 2013, the Reserve Bank began the process of developing loan to value ratio (LVR) r...

The first ‘podcast’ listed above includes interviews with two highly competent economists, University of Auckland property economist Michael Rehm, and former Reserve Bank monetary economist Michael Reddell. The hologram of another such economist, Arthur Grimes, was present also. The interviewer is Kathryn Ryan, certainly one of our more intelligent journalists, more prepared than most to dig a little, though prone to asking questions heavily laden with assumptions. Kathryn Ryan to Michael R...