Last week RNZ reported on two stories that should give us all pause to think about who we are , what we stand for and the ACTUAL rather than…
Read/View MoreWhat is the purpose of an economy?
Author: Bryan Bruce
A Life And Death Decision
David Seymour’s End of Life Choice Bill passed it’s second reading last week It now goes to the Committee of the Whole House where all members of Parliament consider…
Read/View MoreTwo Glimmers Of Hope
26 June 2019In the last 24hours I have read two articles that give me some hope that at long last we might be seeing the demise of the ME…
Read/View MoreHousing 101
The recent cabinet reshuffle in which Phil Twyford was moved sideways is at least some recognition by the Ardern government that their housing policy is failing. So if they’re…
Read/View MoreThe People’s Budget May 31st 2019
“Wellbeing” who would not be for it? But how can the lives of the many be made better if you don’t tax the wealthy? Is there really no more…
Read/View MoreMind The Gap Documentary (2013)
My 2013 documentary about the failure of Neo-liberal economics in New Zealand and what we could do about it. Mind The Gap won Gold at the 2014 New York…
Read/View MoreInside Child Poverty Documentary
My 2011 TV Guide People’s Choice Award Winning Documentary on the impact neoliberal economics has had on the health and wellbeing of New Zealand children. At the time of…
Read/View MoreWould you sell your passport?
Yesterday morning I asked the readers of my Facebook page a deceptively simple question. “What if you could sell your passport?” “Imagine” I wrote “that we that we had passed a law…
Read/View MoreYou cannot fund the politics of kindness with the economics of selfishness.
We have the third lowest government debt in the OECD yet prior to the last election Greens co-leader James Shaw advocated the “Fiscal Responsibility” rules that both parties signed.…
Read/View MoreThe rich will remain rich
and the poor will remain poor.That’s what you can take out of the Labour NZ First rejection of a Capital Gains Tax in any shape or form. Jacinda Ardern…
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