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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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BusinessDesk: DAVID CHAPLIN: Fair’s not fair: why flawed law has finance fuming
Cody Cooper is right. Of the 50-odd submissions on the proposed new financial institution conduct legislation only his (or hers) is inarguably correct. The rest of the submitters can be roughly divided into two camps: those explicitly caught by the Financial Markets (...
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Charles Finny: Is China Serious About Joining the CPTPP?
There has been some excitement in the region at news that China is open to consideration of membership of Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership trade and investment agreement.I advise caution.Superficial appeal At a superficial level a change in China’s official...
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Tim Hazledine: TIM HAZLEDINE: Go forth and multiply…your spending
President Ronald Reagan’s pet economist was Arthur Laffer - he of the eponymous, fantastical Laffer Curve. General Pinochet in Chile favoured Milton Friedman and his ‘Chicago Boys’. In New Zealand, Sir Roger Douglas’s favourite economist was Roger Douglas.But of all the leaders w...
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Jehan Casinader: JEHAN CASINADER: Why the diversity debate really matters
When I was an ambitious teenager, desperately trying to get a foothold in the competitive TV news business, the boss of a major current affairs show told me: “You’re the right colour to be on this programme”. It sounds like shameless tokenism – implying that I was being hired on...
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