Opinion and analysis from Brian Gaynor, Pattrick Smellie, Peter Griffin, David Chaplin and Jehan Casinader and a top-level group of New Zealand experts, including the BusinessDesk editorial team.
PAUL MCBETH: Rate cuts the wrong tool to fight pandemic, but so what?
Paul McBeth |
Tue, 03 Mar 2020
Investors have all bet the house that central banks around the world will cut their benchmark interest rates to offset the threat posed by the coronavirus outbreak.And that’s probably going to force the Reserve Bank of New Zealand’s hand, especially if its Australian counterpart...
OPINION: TVNZ – RNZ merger another broadcasting train wreck?
Barrie Saunders |
Fri, 14 Feb 2020
Former broadcast journalist and TVNZ director between 2011 and 2017, Barrie Saunders, sees a foregone conclusion with unintended consequences in the proposed TVNZ-RNZ merger.The RNZ Concert programme train wreck is but a prelude to what is likely if the proposed RNZ-TVNZ merger g...
