Gareth Morgan offers $20k to design his flag entry

Gareth MorganTreaty

Gareth Morgan believes any new flag needs to acknowledge the Treaty of Waitangi, in which partners agreed to share this land and ensure that each other’s cultures thrive. Morgan believes NZ needs to embrace this opportunity to change our flag … Read More

About Time

Gareth MorganEconomics

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

Something To Crowe About

Gareth MorganEconomics

Gareth Morgan, Director of Gareth Morgan Investments The success of New Zealand’s World Cup cricket squad was a surprise to many followers of the game. Conventional wisdom, as espoused by the many commentators on the game, had it that New … Read More

A Christmas Package of Substance

Gareth MorganPolitics

Gareth Morgan, Director of Gareth Morgan Investments The economic package will be pivotal in determining whether recent political ‘change has been picayune. To prove it isn’t the government must deliver significant structural reform in public sector outlays and avoid the … Read More

Labour Misses The Point

Gareth MorganPolitics

Gareth Morgan, Director of Gareth Morgan Investments The shift at mill that Labour engineered last week really is the limit. The point they choose to miss is that the reason for the widespread political disaffection manifest in the undecided vote … Read More

Capital taxes versus capital gains tax

Susan GuthrieTax and Welfare

Assets are things people own that produce a stream of benefits every year. Another name for assets is ‘capital’. Some assets produce ready cash – think of the interest term deposits produce for you or the rent tenants pay landlords. … Read More

Lower Inflation?

Gareth MorganEconomics

Gareth Morgan, Director of Gareth Morgan Investments To the extent that the agreement between the government, the CTU, and the RBNZ delivers lower inflation, then NZ is closer to the day when the risk premium accorded our interest rates by … Read More

An Inflation Rectangle

Gareth MorganEconomics

Gareth Morgan, Director of Gareth Morgan Investments “Inflation is dead” has been the catchcry for some time, but that did not stop most forecasters being caught out by a lower than expected inflation figure for the September 1991 quarter. It … Read More

Investment Woes ?

Gareth MorganEconomics

Gareth Morgan, Director of Gareth Morgan Investments Over the current financial year investment expenditure by businesses is likely to be 17% lower in real terms than in 1990/91. This projection is supported by import figures, which show capital plant and … Read More

Lollies disguised as muesli bars?

Gareth MorganHealth

It started with Roll Ups promoting themselves as a way to give kids their daily servings of fruit. This plasticky fruit leather was no doubt a dentist’s nightmare. But things appear to have got worse. In the muesli bar section … Read More

Caygill’s Muff

Gareth MorganPolitics

Gareth Morgan, Director of Gareth Morgan Investments The interest rate risk premium on New Zealand has continued its dramatic rise over the last week, signifying that the Budget was a turning point for financial markets. As a beacon of policy … Read More

Microchipping the cats of Upper Hutt

Gareth MorganEnvironment

Wellington City Council has led the country by including cats in their Animal Bylaw, making microchipping of cats mandatory. Now we have our next opportunity to move towards a Predator Free Wellington, with Upper Hutt consulting on their Animal Bylaw. … Read More

The Worm Turns

Gareth MorganPolitics

Gareth Morgan, Director of Gareth Morgan Investments Only two weeks after castigating Paul Keating and George Bush for considering an expansion of fiscal policy as an appropriate means to accelerate economic recovery, our own PM has returned to his roots … Read More

Thank Goodness, War

Gareth MorganEconomics

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

Should you get your child immunised?

Gareth MorganHealth

In the book, Health Cheque, Geoff and I found that in terms of health, prevention is more effective than cure by a factor of four to one. So the Morgan Foundation retains an interest in the issue of prevention, which led … Read More

Lecretia Seales

Do you want to have choice over how your life ends?

Jess Berentson-ShawHealth

The very public life and death of Lecretia Seales last year and the continuing work done in her name by her husband Matt Vickers has thrown the issue of assisted dying into the public forum again. Many New Zealanders have … Read More