Opinion
Opinion and analysis from Pattrick Smellie, Peter Griffin, David Chaplin and Cameron Bagrie and a top-level group of New Zealand experts, including the BusinessDesk editorial team.
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Jenny Ruth: JENNY RUTH: What use are ratings agencies in the time of covid-19?
When the worsening coronavirus crisis shuts everything from borders to schools, and firms from airlines to your local cafe are staring at their businesses evaporating, are ratings agencies doing us a service by saying they're thinking of downgrading this or that company or countr...
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Pattrick Smellie: ANDREW BASCAND: Faster please to avoid the void
Even with the pace of health and economic support being rapidly mobilised to fight covid-19, Andrew Bascand, managing director of Harbour Asset Management and one of New Zealand's most astute observers of both the domestic and global economic trends, argues that we need to shift...
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Brian Gaynor: BRIAN GAYNOR: Post Covid-19 – when will that be and what will it look like?
Covid-19 will have a profound influence on our world for a long, long time after it ends.Hyperinflation in the 1920s had a massive impact on Germany, from both an economic and political point of view, while the “waste not want not” attitude after the great depression of the 1930s...
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Pattrick Smellie: PATTRICK SMELLIE: The govt must go far harder and far faster
The political rhetoric of going "hard and fast" has been widely used and largely uncritically accepted this week as the government has gone from scarily somnolent 10 days ago to taking actions of unprecedented scale to try to meet the huge health and economic challenges of covid-...
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