Jan 24, 2025 · Pundit is an online current affairs and culture blog hub—entirely Kiwi-made—offering you a smart take on what matters in New Zealand and around the world.

Jan 17, 2025 · The state of the current economy may be similar to when National left office in 2017. In December, a couple of days after the Treasury released its 2024 Half Year Economic and Fiscal Update (HEYFU24), Statistics New Zealand reported its estimate for volume GDP for the previous September 24 quarter. Instead of the expected trivial fall of 0.1 percent on June, the economy appears to have ...

3 days ago · Do its Property Right Provisions Make Sense? Last week I pointed out that it is uninformed to argue that the New Zealand’s apparently poor economic performance can be traced only to poor regulations. Even were there evidence they had some impact, there are other factors. Of course, we should seek to administer effectively a system of high quality regulations. However, the proposed Regulatory ...

Mar 15, 2017 · A few things are changing around here... but all in a good way. Just check out our new pundits Dear loyal readers (and any fickle folk floating by), The observant amongst you may have noticed that yesterday our list of contributors on the left hand side of the page changed. Some of the folk who have written for Pundit in the past have moved onto other things and, happily, a bunch of new folk ...

Jul 13, 2024 · A burst of grassroots support, a rush of donations, a new, surprise candidate sweeping into an election race crying out for some ‘stardust’. Could the US presidential election have echoes of New Zealand 2017?

Sep 27, 2024 · Stagnation and Contraction In this column I use the less familiar measure of GDP per capita instead of the GDP measure favoured by the commentariat. I became familiar with it when I began doing international comparisons because of the population differences between countries, while I depended upon the measure while working on New Zealand’s economic history because of significant population ...

About Us Pundit is an online current affairs and culture blog hub—entirely Kiwi-made—offering you a smart take on what matters in New Zealand and around the world. Founders Tim Watkin (former deputy editor of the Listener, blogger for the Guardian in Britain, producer for TV’s Q+A, The Vote and The Nation, and now Executive Producer of Podcasts at RNZ) and Eleanor Black (former deputy ...

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Nov 2, 2024 · A new book challenges how we need to think about technological innovation. Last week’s column mentioned the three 2024 Nobel laureates in economics. The column focused only on the 2012 book Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson with little reference to Simon Johnson, although the three have worked closely together for about 30 years. Johnson published last year, with Acemoglu ...