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RBNZ sheds staff but takes on costly premises lease

ANALYSIS: Moves a striking reminder of how easily purpose and stewardship can fall out of sync.

Christoph Schumacher Mon, 24 Nov 2025

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$20 beers in Wellington – who’s to blame?

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RBNZ’s gamble: erring on the side of growth

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Retirement funding a slow unfolding crisis

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Stop sidelining manufacturing

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Rethinking council rates: how should we measure affordability?

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The economic cake: why we can’t both have it and eat it

ANALYSIS: The incompatible demands of OCR, GDP growth rate, employment figures, and inflation value.

Christoph Schumacher Wed, 10 May 2023

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Eternal growth is not feasible, or is it?

ANALYSIS: Overlapping crises of the past few years have ended trajectory of creating and consuming more stuff every year.

Hillmarè Schulze Mon, 24 Apr 2023

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How Okun’s Law affects New Zealand

ANALYSIS: What’s more pressing – the NZ banking sector and the ripples of a potential banking crisis reaching our shores or a negative quarterly GDP growth rate and the impact on unemployment?

Christoph Schumacher Mon, 10 Apr 2023

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We have a recession every 10 years – it should not be a surprise

OPINION: Key to future prosperity is to future-proof businesses now as we navigate that recession.

Hillmarè Schulze Mon, 27 Mar 2023

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The economic cost of NZ’s natural disasters

ANALYSIS: If New Zealand switches to a future-proof ‘build-better’ approach we will seize rather than lose opportunities.

Christoph Schumacher Mon, 13 Mar 2023

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Complex relationship between minimum wage and inflation

ANALYSIS: An outright statement that increasing the floor of what workers can earn will create pressure on prices and lead to further inflation is short-sighted.