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.
Sorry PM, returning expats aren't a huge tourism milestone

Paul McBeth: Sorry PM, returning expats aren't a huge tourism milestone

It's not too much to ask for some concrete indicators on when vaccinated tourists will be able to bypass quarantine. 

Paul McBeth 04 Mar 2022
More to housing slowdown than CCCFA lending rules
Finance

Cameron Bagrie: More to housing slowdown than CCCFA lending rules

Home loan seekers are turning to non-banks in larger numbers, although we are far from the levels seen before the finance company collapses of the late 2000s.

Cameron Bagrie 03 Mar 2022
Russia may win on the ground, but it lost the information war
Technology

Peter Griffin: Russia may win on the ground, but it lost the information war

As one Twitter user put it of Putin vs Zelenskyy: "Ex-KGB pensioner loses to former stand-up comedian with a smartphone."

Peter Griffin 03 Mar 2022
RATs not good enough for our coming omicron peak
Coronavirus Free

Leon Grice: RATs not good enough for our coming omicron peak

Rapid antigen tests are not the panacea to overcoming the bottlenecks revealed this week in the covid PCR testing system that is being portrayed, argues Rako Science's Leon Grice.

Leon Grice 02 Mar 2022