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.
Budget 2022: a big-spending juggernaut
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Cameron Bagrie: Budget 2022: a big-spending juggernaut

Controlling government spending to tamp down factors that are causing high inflation should be a priority for the government, but a big-spending budget is already baked in.

Cameron Bagrie 16 May 2022
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No flared trousers, please, but housing parallels to the 1970s are eerie
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Jenny Ruth: No flared trousers, please, but housing parallels to the 1970s are eerie

Keep watching the unemployment rate for the key to how much house prices could fall.

Jenny Ruth 16 May 2022
An old job for the ‘new’ Treasury?
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Pattrick Smellie: An old job for the ‘new’ Treasury?

As a kinder, gentler Treasury faces a looming recession, it will be challenged to find its inner naysayer. 

Pattrick Smellie 14 May 2022
Thin blue line meets budget red ink
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Cameron Bagrie: Thin blue line meets budget red ink

A budget initiative to deal with a spate of crimes finds itself subject to a thief of another kind: inflation.

Cameron Bagrie 13 May 2022