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Shamubeel Eaqub: Are we talking ourselves into recession?
Even if NZ is in recession, it just might be short-lived. The real issue may be debt.
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Shamubeel Eaqub: NZ – winning at unaffordable houses
It turns out we don’t need help from migrants to bid up house prices.
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Shamubeel Eaqub: The Reserve Bank's shrinking chance to save itself
The Reserve Bank appears tone-deaf and intellectually lazy as the threat to its independence gathers political steam, warns Sense Partners economist Shamubeel Eaqub.
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Shamubeel Eaqub: SHAMUBEEL EAQUB: On free money
Sense Partners economist Shamubeel Eaqub was surprised recently to find that the Social Credit party had made him a poster-boy, along with various other well-known New Zealand economic luminaries, for the idea that all governments need do to fix their economic problems is print a...