While many of the world’s Christian religions seem preoccupied with personal issues that Jesus, their founder, barely touched upon, they must engage with economic issues too. Robert Prevost, chose the ...

Should we pursue a ‘Golden Rule’ where any public borrowing for consumption is temporary? This columnist is a fiscal conservative who is cautious about government borrowing for public consumption. I ...

The budget runup is far from easy. Budget 2025 day is Thursday 22 May. About a month earlier in a normal year, the macroeconomic forecasts would be completed (the fiscal ones would still be tidying up ...

A major American study suggests they are not? This column is about the white working class. In the US 2024 elections they mainly voted for Donald Trump. Had they voted with the white middle class, ...

Ganesh Nana is Chief Economist and Executive Director at Business and Economic Research Limited (BERL), which remains a privately-owned New Zealand research company (established in 1957). Ganesh ...

Phil Vine has been a print, radio and television journalist for 30 years cycling between most of the current affairs shows in New Zealand, Sunday, Sixty Minutes, Fair Go and 3D investigates, winning a ...