Gareth Morgan, Director of Gareth Morgan Investments The Growth Agreement stitched together by the CTU and the Government was heralded as an overdue moderation of Rogernomics. Dispassionate examination suggests that it is little more than desperate cobbling by two parties … Read More

Gareth Morgan, Director of Gareth Morgan Investments In providing forceful forecasts of where the economy is likely to lurch economists with only one hand run the risk of being gunned down by people who are irked by hearing views that … Read More

Gareth Morgan, Director of Gareth Morgan Investments Many people have decried the infatuation some have with achieving low inflation. There is no denying that taming our delinquent inflation performance has been a bitter battle prompting calls for less stringent targets, … Read More

Gareth Morgan, Director of Gareth Morgan Investments Traditionally spring has been the season for much posturing by politicians employers and unions as they jostle for a position on where wages should go. Remember the tri-partite conferences and the need to … Read More

Gareth Morgan, Director of Gareth Morgan Investments The last week has seen serious cracks emerge in the government’s ability to continue the reform process. Health Minister Upton demonstrated an inability to effect supply process reform in that industry with his … Read More

Gareth Morgan, Director of Gareth Morgan Investments The release last. week of the December quarter’s Producers Price Index con firms inflation is running at very low levels in comparison to other economies. With the falls in oil prices yet to … Read More

Gareth Morgan, Director of Gareth Morgan Investments Last week may have been the best week NZ has had since the recession bit in 1987. The reasons? The Gulf war began at last, and NZ’s ex-oil inflation for the past year … Read More

Gareth Morgan, Director of Gareth Morgan Investments Friday’s move by the RB to haul back a little on the easing monetary conditions was overdue. While the threat of immediate inflation may well be minor, as various sector interests have been … Read More

Gareth Morgan, Director of Gareth Morgan Investments Once financial deregulation descended, NZ’s established capital market structures came under tremendous pressures. We have seen the sharemarket suffer an enormous reversal in value with low prospects of that particular market ever returning … Read More