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.
Policy
Peter Griffin: PETER GRIFFIN: Are the Nats capable of an innovation-led covid recovery?
Many business people who listened to Judith Collins’ first interviews in her role as leader of the Opposition yesterday will have breathed a sigh of relief.
Economy
Gavin Evans: GAVIN EVANS: Southland jobs sacrificed to confused energy policy
The 2,600 jobs to be sacrificed in Southland next year are a high price to pay for confused energy policy and a multi-decade decline in this country’s economic ambitions. Despite the writing being on the wall for the Tiwai Point smelter since 2013, the plant – one of the world...
Finance
David Chaplin: DAVID CHAPLIN: Afterpay, the payment system that ‘isn’t’
How much for cash?In the good old days, your plumber would have an answer to that question. But the demise of physical money, a sustained regulatory crack-down on the ‘black economy’ and a surplus of anti-money laundering rules have rendered the ‘cashie’ obsolete: a piece of fina...
Election 2020
Pattrick Smellie: PATTRICK SMELLIE: What do the Nats do now?
Todd Muller's only job as National Party leader was to lose the election better than it seemed Simon Bridges was destined to do. Whoever replaces Muller has an even simpler task: save as much of the furniture as possible. While Jacinda Ardern proved in 2017 that it is possi...
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