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May 13, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Economies as Pie Charts Most of us are familiar with the expressions ‘economic pie’ or ‘economic cake’. The ‘pie’ metaphor is probably best, because pies represent a holdall food item, less homogeneous in their finished forms than are cakes. Further, most of us are familiar with pie charts. Yesterday I published ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Pie Economics: a Way to Understand Economic Balance" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/13/keith-rankin-analysis-pie-economics-a-way-to-understand-economic-balance/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Pie Economics: a Way to Understand Economic Balance">Read more</a>
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May 12, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Income in an Economy The chart above shows how income is distributed in an economy. It shows three major sectors: Government, Business and Households. Households are the principal sector; governments and businesses serve households, and are accountable to households. The chart is a pie chart, representing the economic pie. (For now, ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – National Income: the Pie Chart" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/12/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-national-income-the-pie-chart/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – National Income: the Pie Chart">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Fact Checking On Mondays – or Tuesdays after public holidays – National Radio’s Kathryn Ryan runs a session called ‘Political Commentators’. On 28 April, from the right was regular commentator Matthew Hooton. From the left was Neal Jones who is listed as: “Chief of Staff to Labour Leader Jacinda Ardern, and prior ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Universal Income Flat Tax: the Mechanism that Makes the Necessary Possible" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/30/keith-rankin-analysis-universal-income-flat-tax-the-mechanism-that-makes-the-necessary-possible/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Universal Income Flat Tax: the Mechanism that Makes the Necessary Possible">Read more</a>
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December 19, 2019
The Minister of Finance visited his local soup kitchen one night last month, and tweeted “Good to catch up with folk I worked with/helped over the years+remember how important it is to give every helping hand we can”. But are Grant Robertson and his colleagues giving enough of a helping hand to those in poverty? ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Is the Government doing enough to address poverty?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/19/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-is-the-government-doing-enough-to-address-poverty/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Is the Government doing enough to address poverty?">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2019
How rotten is New Zealand, given the state of poverty at the end of 2019? And why do politicians and the public allow it? These are the questions that might be asked in the lead up to Christmas this year, given the wealth of information we have on disadvantage and suffering at the moment. Auckland ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: How rotten is New Zealand?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/17/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-how-rotten-is-new-zealand/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: How rotten is New Zealand?">Read more</a>
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November 27, 2019
When the annual national accounts were released by Statistics New Zealand, the $300 billion milestone was released. New Zealand now produces, for sale, goods and services valued at more than $300 billion in one year. Ownership of the gross domestic product (GDP) is called ‘income’. Deciding who, at first cut, owns those goods and services ... <a title="Keith Rankin’s Chart Analysis: Division of New Zealand’s $300 billion GDP" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/27/keith-rankins-chart-analysis-division-of-new-zealands-300-billion-gdp/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin’s Chart Analysis: Division of New Zealand’s $300 billion GDP">Read more</a>
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October 18, 2019
An EveningReport.nz investigation by Kevin List Evening Report looks into the separation of Kiwibank from New Zealand Post, and considers the impact on the public’s access to banking services in their communities. Kiwibank. What’s going on? Kiwibank and New Zealand Post are in the process of separating the two businesses. This means that both Kiwibank ... <a title="State of Play: What’s Happening to Kiwibank and How Many Branches Are Closing?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/10/18/state-of-play-whats-happening-to-kiwibank-and-how-many-branches-are-closing/" aria-label="Read more about State of Play: What’s Happening to Kiwibank and How Many Branches Are Closing?">Read more</a>
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September 9, 2019
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards – What sort of topsy-turvy political world have we arrived at? This week, the Government continued to defend its fiscally conservative approach, in direct opposition to economists who suggest more spending is warranted. Even Treasury, the Reserve Bank, the private sector, and National appear to be open to much greater ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Shouldn’t the Government be spending more?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/09/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-shouldnt-the-government-be-spending-more/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Shouldn’t the Government be spending more?">Read more</a>
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September 5, 2019
The Government has been widely panned over its major announcement yesterday on housing. There are a few positive takes on the “reset”, but generally it has been viewed as an embarrassing backdown at best, or at worst a sell-out of those needing the housing crisis addressed. One political journalist has even branded yesterday’s announcement as ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Labour’s KiwiBuild reset disaster" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/05/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-labours-kiwibuild-reset-disaster/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Labour’s KiwiBuild reset disaster">Read more</a>
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July 10, 2019
The plight of welfare beneficiaries came into focus last week with a photo taken outside an Auckland Work and Income office, of clients who had been queuing from 2am in order to apply for emergency hardship payments. This has sparked a debate about whether the Labour-led Government is doing enough to provide for this group ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: What’s changed for welfare beneficiaries?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/10/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-whats-changed-for-welfare-beneficiaries/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: What’s changed for welfare beneficiaries?">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2019
There’s increasing doubt about how transformational the Labour-led Government is turning out to be. In all sorts of public policy areas the new administration is struggling to make the changes and produce the outcomes it promised. Perhaps expectations are too high? Maybe voters and commentators are too impatient? Or, could it be that the political ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: How to achieve transformational change in politics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/09/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-how-to-achieve-transformational-change-in-politics/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: How to achieve transformational change in politics">Read more</a>
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July 5, 2019
Call it “state housing”, “social housing” or this Government’s preference, “public housing” – it’s the accommodation solution that continues to be overlooked and neglected by both Labour and National governments. Sure, the current government might talk a lot about “public housing” and they might be building more state houses than the previous government, but it’s ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Is it time for a programme of mass state house building?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/05/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-is-it-time-for-a-programme-of-mass-state-house-building/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Is it time for a programme of mass state house building?">Read more</a>
