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Christina Leung: Profits not responsible for inflation, NZIER economist says
Episode 38
Excess profits are unlikely to be a significant driver of inflation as business profitability has been declining as inflation has risen, an economist…
3 years, 3 months ago
Mark Aspin: The mitigation technologies that could 'make a big hole' in NZ livestock methane emissions
Episode 37
If things go well in four key areas where work is underway to tackle methane emissions from farm animals they could "make a big hole" in New Zealand'…
3 years, 3 months ago
Bill Rosenberg: How to measure household inflation better than the CPI does
Episode 36
According to Statistics New Zealand's Consumers' Price Index (CPI) inflation is running above 7%, its highest level since 1990. The Reserve Bank, tas…
3 years, 3 months ago
Anthony Healy: How a business growth fund partnership between banks & the Government works
Episode 35
There's no reason why a partnership between the Government and banks making equity investments in small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) wouldn't w…
3 years, 4 months ago
Greg Fleming: How to invest in a bursting bubble
Episode 34
Silicon Valley Bank’s meltdown this week was partly because it had been investing customer deposits in US Treasuries, considered one of the world’s s…
3 years, 4 months ago
Grant Halverson: Was the buy now pay later fintech revolution ever much more than smoke and mirrors?
Episode 33
Just a couple of years ago there was huge excitement about buy now pay later (BNPL) companies. Via smartphone applications, or apps, their buy now an…
3 years, 4 months ago
Doug Fairgray: Is the bipartisan attempt to boost urban housing density the right way to go?
Episode 32
In a rare show of bipartisan cooperation, the Labour and National parties teamed-up to enact new housing intensification laws in late 2021.
This came …
3 years, 4 months ago
Gilmour & Hicks: Is the war on dirty money winnable, and if so how?
Episode 31
Money laundering is a scourge of the modern financial world. Whether it's the actual dirty money stretching its tentacles and influence widely, or th…
3 years, 4 months ago
David Mahon: The end of Covid-zero and the Chinese economy 'beginning to really move again'
Episode 30
After their Government's "clumsily conceived and executed lurch" away from its zero-Covid policy, the Chinese people are "back to work with real ener…
3 years, 5 months ago
David Hall: Climate adaptation urgency & the potential for parametric insurance
Episode 29
Auckland's unprecedented flooding highlights the importance of climate adaptation finance and the potential for parametric insurance, says David Hall…
3 years, 5 months ago