Insights 47: 16 December: The most exciting breakthrough of 2022
Insights 46: 9 December: Enquiring into Covid Inquiries | Three cheers for the Auditor-General | Bullsh*t detectors are the answer
Insights 45: 2 December: Yet more Government contempt for New Zealand’s democracy | Wayne Brown's not-so-super city | Make it Zero
Insights 44: 25 November: It’s cruel only to sound kind | Free speech and the decline of religious war | Bill of Rights contortions
Insights 43: 18 November: Too early to say | My important moustache | No such thing as a free lunch?
Insights 42: 11 November: How to make a problem worse | Real-time inflation tracker | Was the Spanish Inquisition ever a thing?
Insights 41: 4 November: Australian-style immigration reset| Save our cities| The Frog-Exaggerator
Insights 40: 28 October: Save our cities| The definition of insanity…| Out of Office
Insights 39: 21 October: Learning from the Truss disaster| Inflation lessons from Switzerland| The banality of evil shoe salesmen
Insights 38: 14 October: Locals know best| Is the market economy making us less selfish? | Potemkin learning
Insights 37: 7 October: Government should not profit from inflation | Why I can’t quite stop worrying | The serious business of satire
Insights 36: 30 September: War against the West | Let the FPA battles begin | A new brief for MfE
Insights 35: 23 September: Education in an evidence-free environment | The value in Vogel | A conference nightmare
Insights 34: 16 September: A plan for real change | Uncoordinated policy | Celebrating political entrepreneurs
Insights 33: 9 September: Her Majesty the Queen (1926 - 2022)
Insights 32: 2 September: Absence of accurate diagnosis | Credit where credit is due | A cunning plan
Insights 31: 26 August: Lessons from the Celtic Tiger| Hoskin vs. Hosking| I trust you mate
Insights 30: 19 August: The curious Dr Wilkinson| A pretence of learning| A PM congratulates Forsty
Insights 29: 12 August: First, get people into debt | Too Fast, too Furious | Political psychoanalysis
Insights 28: 5 August: The ComCom’s New Lamp Post | Applied history | Welcome to Niceness U
Insights 27: 29 July: Focus on price stability | Crying fowl | Misplaced ambition
Insights 26: 22 July: No trivial pursuit | Inflation in NZ | The return of the rent-seeking society
Insights 25: 15 July: Economic mismanagement | Joining the Initiative | Beehive rebuts misplaced fears
Insights 24: 8 July: “Minister’s false justifications” | NIMBY In Chief | Risk assessment
Insights 23: 1 July: The meaning of independence | Don’t delay literacy | Numeracy quiz for the MoH
Insights 22: 23 June: NZ’s economy a shadow of its former self | Expecting better | The jury is out
Insights 21: 17 June: RBNZ’s cultural appropriation | Quality regulation | Envying Sisyphus
Insights 20: 10 June: Pricing agricultural emissions| Health "reform" | Welcome to the machine
Insights 19: / 3 June: Serious Recession? | Economics in the New Zealand media | Lamentable ignorance about ignorance
Insights 18: / 27 May: How central banking lost its way | Poorly performing regulators | " Grant Robertson ” defends Budget 2022
Insights 17: / 20 May: The Whistling-in-the-Dark Budget | Blowing the budget | A Spinoff tax strategy
Insights 16: / 13 May: Budget previews | Literacy Symposium | Bridges to Ukraine
Insights 15: / 6 May: Too much of a good thing | "Fairly tax the rich?” | Impossible things
Insights 14: / 29 April: Victory for democracy? | “Revolution” in economic thinking | Govt lottery
Insights 13: / 22 April: Reconnecting to the world | A ‘losers’ list’ for MMP? |Unlicensed occupations
Insights 12: / 14 April: Extortionary business | Fair Pay bonanza | Gotcha, Albanese
Insights 11: / 8 April: Housing games | Educational inequality matters | Fair play and unfair pay
Insights 10: / 1 April: Special 10th anniversary edition | Bill English, Josie Pagani and Oliver Hartwich on a decade of Initiative
Insights 9: / 25 March: Welcome to the 1970s | Gratuitous hardship | Take a walk
Insights 8: 18 March: Excise tax holiday doubly wrong | A bad portent | No excuse for being Russian
Insights 7: / 11 March: The economic consequences of the war | The education agenda | Defending satire
Insights 6: / 4 March: New Zealand shares West's negligence | Flying blind | The West stands tall
Insights 5: / 25 February: Our generation’s historic challenge | Getting ourselves through | Unsanctioned trespass breeds lawlessness | MoH to block retail sale of thermometers
Insights 4: / 18 February: Transparency, please | Financial storm brewing | Finally, growth for Europe
Insights 3:/ 11 February: Finding consensus | Backdoor central planning | The one without the asset prices
Insights 2: / 4 February: OECD’s blindspot | Overseas investment red tape | Intentionally blank
Insights 1: / 28 January: Our final Groundhog Day? | Unemployment smoke and mirrors | Punishing prudence
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