ANALYSIS: Who is in power significantly influences how confident businesses say they feel – and the size of this impact does matter.
ANALYSIS: It’s time we all braced ourselves for rate hikes.
ANALYSIS: If we do not learn from what has and has not worked over the past two decades, we risk repeating a familiar pattern.
ANALYSIS: The New Zealand economy is operating closer to the margins than the Reserve Bank had assumed.
ANALYSIS: Entry-level jobs are the foundation for building productivity, skills, and participation in the economy.
ANALYSIS: Today’s inflation persistence is not a mystery, it is the predictable consequence of an economy that has struggled to expand its productive capacity.
ANALYSIS: To secure long-term prosperity, we need to rebalance toward the sectors where global growth is strongest.
ANALYSIS: The signs are encouraging but we are not out of the woods yet.
ANALYSIS: Lack of access to healthy food is quietly fuelling a multibillion-dollar burden on our health system and national productivity.
ANALYSIS: After a difficult year, New Zealand enters 2026 with the foundations for a slow, steady recovery, with cautious optimism.