currency / b. of payments

Into the Stagflationary Mire
The dollar is in retreat - a windfall or just a signal of our out-of-puff economy?...
23 February 2006 - Gareth Morgan

Play the Wrong Key, Ruin the Song
The hard landing is looming. The Reserve Bank's scope to steer us clear of that scenario is hostage to international capital flows....
20 October 2005 - Gareth Morgan

The Imminent Crash of the Kiwi Dollar
Every day deeper in debt. So what? Despite bigger and bigger balance of payments deficits, NZ is basking in the relief lower world interest rates offer....
28 September 2005 - Gareth Morgan

Cullen’s Call to Compound the Global Glut of Savings
Policy Freak. The world is awash with savings and Minister Cullen wants to add to it....
3 August 2005 - Gareth Morgan

Toxic Saving
Simply saving more offers no path to higher living standards. It's investment where NZ is getting it wrong....
17 February 2005 - Gareth Morgan

Dining Out on the Spoils
Our economy keeps roaring - in defiance of all predictions. Will it end in tears?...
10 December 2004 - Gareth Morgan

For commodity sellers our dollar can never be too weak
A low dollar just encourages low value exporting. There is no case for it....
8 October 2003 - Gareth Morgan

The Balance of Payments Not All Black
During their World Cup campaign All Black sagacity evaporated. This, rather than any lack of fitness or individual skills was apparent through all of their games. The strategic inadequacy was predominant in the back line. While the forwards were competitive, the backs time and again exposed themselves as incapable of beating the opposition, almost any opposition. That the poll of journalists ...
20 November 1991 - Gareth Morgan