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Treasury forecasts suggest we're going back to the future

OPINION: Our editorial on why productivity is the golden ticket out of this fiscal rut.

Former PM recalls how chaos, economic alarm spawned big pre-election event

'She and I got together and said: This should never happen again.'

Matthew Hooton: National’s tax plan is a cynical con job

OPINION: Savings must be used to repay our growing debt, not to buy off voters.

Thomas Coughlan: National’s $14.6b tax plan - does it add up?

OPINION: Does the National plan deliver - and do the sums make sense?

Debt blowout: Govt expected to borrow $35b more than planned eight months ago

Economists warn the next government won't have much cash to splash.

Accountants want low-income trusts to be exempt from tax rate hike

Inland Revenue says $17 billion trustee income is under-taxed.

ECB introduces ‘de facto bank tax’ snubbed by RBNZ

Central bank president speaks of "public duty" to conduct monetary policy efficiently.

Nation of Debt: Govt’s seismic borrowing is coming at a huge cost

Government's interest costs match law and order expenditure.

Bryce Wilkinson: IMF's utopian thinking dangerous for freedoms and prosperity

OPINION: Jacinda Ardern's own advisers could have written the same report.

Liam Dann: Tougher economic year ahead? How dark will it get?

Are we emerging from the grip of Covid straight into a full-blown economic meltdown?

GDP preview: Economy was red-hot. Is that meaningless now?

Strong second-quarter GDP data will provide some confidence for post-lockdown rebound.

Is it all over for the economic boom?

ANZ economists see cause for optimism and forecast V-shaped recovery after sharp GDP hit.

Liam Dann: Why forecast interest rate hikes are a huge relief

Debate on the rise of inflation is running hot, thankfully Adrian Orr isn't picking sides.

Liam Dann: America is going to war on tax havens and it's going to change the world

Covid-19 and Joe Biden are driving the biggest change in global economics in 40 years.

New Treasury role for Westpac chief economist

Dominick Stephens will work with Treasury on a 10-month secondment from Westpac.

'No free lunch' - Orr's warning for property speculators

After early success NZ now faces a difficult period, RBNZ Governor Adrian Orr says.