Of Interest

By Gareth Vaughan

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Longform interviews with key opinion makers about the New Zealand economy

Episode Date
Jennifer Wilkins: making the case for degrowth
Apr 24, 2024
Andrew Dentice on the competition, innovation & societal benefits of open banking, & its marketing problem
Apr 19, 2024
Barbara Edmonds: Rehabilitating Labour's economic credibility after the cost of living crisis
Apr 12, 2024
Tim Grafton: 12 years at the coalface of the insurance industry
Apr 04, 2024
John Small: The Commerce Commission's recipe to tackle the banking oligopoly
Mar 23, 2024
Patrick Watson: US voters 'living in their own realities' including on the economy
Mar 19, 2024
Cameron Murray: The Great Housing Hijack
Mar 13, 2024
David Mahon: China's post-Covid hangover, NZ flirting with joining AUKUS & more
Mar 02, 2024
Andrew Bayly: The select committee banking inquiry, Statistics NZ's challenges & more
Feb 18, 2024
Geoff Cooper: Changing the perceptions of infrastructure planning to dynamic from bureaucratic
Feb 02, 2024
Jarrod Kerr: Why the RBNZ should move away from its 'overly hawkish commentary'
Jan 25, 2024
Rod Oram: The key test ahead now COP28 has agreed to a transition away from fossil fuels
Dec 18, 2023
Stephen Toplis: Why the worst of the economic downturn is still to come
Dec 16, 2023
Adrian Orr: Doing whatever it takes to achieve low and stable inflation, and his ideal scenario for monetary policy in a year's time
Dec 04, 2023
John Ballingall: Why the time is ripe for a new trade strategy
Nov 28, 2023
Kelly Eckhold: Why the RBNZ's increased foreign currency intervention capacity makes sense
Nov 18, 2023
Christina Hood: Getting to net zero and what comes next
Nov 08, 2023
Peter Dunne: How coalition negotiations work
Oct 26, 2023
Dave Christie: What's needed to pull NZ's supply chains out of 'serious, if not critical condition'
Oct 18, 2023
Julie-Anne Genter: Public transport, rent controls, housing & tax
Oct 09, 2023
Grant Robertson: The one thing he overspent on
Oct 02, 2023
Shane Jones: NZ First promises a new focus on growth
Oct 01, 2023
David Mahon: How tensions with the US are a factor dampening Chinese consumer confidence
Sep 18, 2023
China & EU make dovish moves, US data positive
Sep 14, 2023
Max Rashbrooke: How and why NZ should 'clean big money out' of political donations
Sep 14, 2023
David Cunningham: The key area the Commerce Commission should focus its bank competition probe on
Sep 07, 2023
Gary Hughes: What could be done to simplify & improve anti-money laundering law
Aug 30, 2023
Steve Jurkovich: where Kiwibank has come from, where it's at & where it's going
Aug 25, 2023
Can New Zealand survive repeating tight electricity events?
Aug 11, 2023
Rebekah Cain: Why banks matter in the push to decarbonise the economy
Aug 04, 2023
Nathan Lewis: What's behind a potential BRICS gold-backed currency system & how it might work
Jul 28, 2023
Michael Timothy Bennett: why AI will be like a series of black swan events
Jul 20, 2023
Richard Yetsenga; ANZ's Group Chief Economist on where central banks' inflation war is at
Jul 14, 2023
Hannah Miller: the rise and fall of spellcaster Sam Bankman-Fried
Jul 07, 2023
Gaya Herrington: Why the goal should be meeting human needs within planetary boundaries rather than economic growth
Jun 28, 2023
Martin Brook: why you wouldn't build on much of Auckland's land if you started from scratch knowing what we know today
Jun 24, 2023
Paul Donovan: UBS chief economist unwraps profit-led inflation
Jun 15, 2023
Blair Turnbull: Tower CEO on not letting a big disaster go to waste
Jun 13, 2023
Martin Foo: S&P's concerns about NZ's current account deficit & more
May 23, 2023
Eric Crampton and Craig Renney give their takes on 2023 Budget
May 21, 2023
Rohan Grey: How minting a platinum coin could solve the US debt ceiling crisis
May 12, 2023
Paul Tucker - How quantitative easing has impacted the public finances
May 07, 2023
Martin Whetton: How overseas investors view New Zealand government debt
Apr 29, 2023
Tim Hazledine: Potential new tools to help with the inflation fight
Apr 21, 2023
Kim Martin: The New Zealand Debt Management boss on how the Government borrows and repays debt
Apr 18, 2023
Christina Leung: Profits not responsible for inflation, NZIER economist says
Apr 08, 2023
Mark Aspin: The mitigation technologies that could 'make a big hole' in NZ livestock methane emissions
Mar 30, 2023
Bill Rosenberg: How to measure household inflation better than the CPI does
Mar 22, 2023
Anthony Healy: How a business growth fund partnership between banks & the Government works
Mar 19, 2023
Greg Fleming: How to invest in a bursting bubble
Mar 18, 2023
Grant Halverson: Was the buy now pay later fintech revolution ever much more than smoke and mirrors?
Mar 04, 2023
Doug Fairgray: Is the bipartisan attempt to boost urban housing density the right way to go?
Feb 25, 2023
Gilmour & Hicks: Is the war on dirty money winnable, and if so how?
Feb 23, 2023
David Mahon: The end of Covid-zero and the Chinese economy 'beginning to really move again'
Feb 10, 2023
David Hall: Climate adaptation urgency & the potential for parametric insurance
Feb 02, 2023
John McDermott: Why quantitative easing has proven to be 'very dangerous'
Dec 20, 2022
Adam Boileau: How geopolitical fragmentation is aiding the rise of cybercrime & why NZ needs a Minister of Cyber Security
Dec 09, 2022
David McLeish: The problem of using a tool to fight supply problems when it's designed to fight demand issues
Dec 06, 2022
Karen Silk: what RBNZ Monetary Policy Committee members will be watching over summer
Dec 06, 2022
Jarrod Kerr: the war on inflation
Dec 06, 2022
Ganesh Nana: New Zealand needs a major reset of immigration policy
Dec 06, 2022
Martien Lubberink: Why banks love housing so much
Dec 06, 2022
Rebecca Ingram: Why the tourism restart is not just a matter of flicking a switch
Dec 06, 2022
Jeremy Muir: Why there's no silver bullet law for the crypto and blockchain industry
Dec 06, 2022
Ryan Greenaway-McGrevy: How Auckland's leading the world in housing upzoning
Dec 06, 2022
Earl Bardsley: Could a pumped hydro scheme free NZ from fossil fuel power and enable the green transition?
Dec 06, 2022
Clare Bolingford: What will regulating the conduct of banks & insurers mean for their customers?
Dec 06, 2022
Paul Conway: Why he's optimistic NZ can improve its productivity performance
Dec 06, 2022
Stephen Jacobi: Is New Zealand too dependent on China as an export market?
Dec 06, 2022
David Mahon: What's going on in China's economy
Dec 06, 2022
Shamubeel Eaqub: Why the Generation Rent author is now optimistic about the housing market
Dec 06, 2022
Geof Mortlock: New Zealand is finally poised to get deposit insurance. So what will it mean?
Dec 06, 2022
Raf Manji: Did the RBNZ's Covid-19 response follow a misdiagnosis of the problem?
Dec 06, 2022
Shannon Barlow: How and why employees hold the power in the labour market and not employers
Dec 06, 2022
Nick Smyth: Why financial markets are pricing in interest rate cuts
Dec 06, 2022
Rick Jones: How big a threat is automation to accountants, and how can you attract young people to the profession?
Dec 06, 2022
Blair Turnbull: Insurance and climate change
Dec 06, 2022
Tava Olsen: Can NZ have a national supply chain strategy?
Dec 06, 2022
John Bolton: 'The everything bubble's popping and property has probably done comparatively well'
Dec 06, 2022
Rod Carr: 'I would not underestimate the challenge that humanity faces in decarbonising our livelihoods and lifestyles'
Dec 06, 2022
Grant Spencer: Why inflation is a problem and where it's going
Dec 06, 2022
Ian Woolford: The push to launch a central bank digital currency
Dec 06, 2022
Arthur Grimes: Would it be possible and/or desirable to engineer a housing market correction?
Dec 06, 2022