Outrageous Fortune

Gareth MorganEconomics

COVER FEATURE ARTICLE, NZ LISTENER 23 FEBRUARY 2008 GARETH MORGAN offers insights into the global economy and tips for dealing with a bear market. Finance company collapses littered New Zealand‘s economic environment last year, making investors and borrowers extra nervous. … Read More

The Big Game Part V

Gareth MorganInvesting

THE TACTICS- HOW THE INSURANCE MULTINATIONALS GET AWAY WITH IT When customers find they have been diddled and seek recourse, there is a well-established sequence of responses. This invariably ends in resolution but with the offending corporate free to do … Read More

When Good Deflation Turns Bad

Gareth MorganEconomics

BY GARETH MORGAN US deflation is supply-side deflation a.k.a. “good” deflation. Japanese and German deflation is demand-side deflation and is bad, bad, bad. What’s that mean for the world? In the US the supply of goods and services (GDP) continues … Read More

Bush’s New Paradigm and Economic Prospects

Gareth MorganEconomics

BY GARETH MORGAN As the US-led invasion of Iraq draws ever closer, the important point for businesses, households and governments alike is that it threatens a sea-change in the geo-political institutional environment that has prevailed since World War II and … Read More

Muslims and the West

Gareth MorganUncategorized

BY GARETH MORGAN Having just returned from almost a month living under the shadow of the Pakistan and Afghanistan regimes in West Asia, it is easy to bring a somewhat different perspective of events around the World Trade Centre and … Read More

The Confusion of “Free” Trade

Gareth MorganEconomics

BY GARETH MORGAN The success of Fisher and Paykel getting punitive tariffs imposed on whiteware imports from Korea highlights the arbitrariness of so-called "free" trade. All power to F&P for having government take retaliatory action against the dumped goods, no … Read More

Impressions of Britain

Gareth MorganEconomics

BY GARETH MORGAN Having been in the UK for the last 6 weeks one can't help but notice the contrast between life there and here. Certainly their economy is performing pretty well with unemployment now below 5% and job ads … Read More

All the Better to Eat You with

Gareth MorganEconomics

BY GARETH MORGAN The arrogance of the US authorities in matters of trade has been to the fore in recent weeks. The country that has recognised free trade as good for all is now of the opinion that it is … Read More