Oct 21, 2021 | Business & Economics
By Nicolas Hérault Low interest rates and COVID-19 mean governments, not central banks, now control the world’s key economic levers. The COVID-19 pandemic has delivered a huge shock to the global economy just as we are witnessing a major shift in who calls the shots...
Oct 20, 2021 | Business & Economics
By George Turner The Pandora Papers show how the tax industry uses ‘special purpose vehicles’ to avoid stamp duty – despite repeated legislation to prevent this. The Pandora Papers shed light on a UK property market that operates under two parallel structures. The...
Oct 5, 2021 | Business & Economics
By Alastair Smith Global food prices shot up nearly 33% in September 2021 compared with the same period the year before. That’s according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)‘s monthly Food Price Index, which also found that global prices have risen by...
Sep 20, 2021 | Business & Economics
By Sara Walton, Paula O’Kane & Diane Ruwhiu How will New Zealanders ‘work’ in 2040 and beyond? How do we make sense in the present day of the societal, economic and environmental pressures that will impact work in the future? As we approach the third decade...
Sep 9, 2021 | Business & Economics, Politics & Society
By James Meadway From taming Big Tech to competing with China, Western governments are abandoning free-market policies. Could it be that the free-market policies that have dominated policymaking for the past 40 years are finally on their way out? In the past six...
Jul 20, 2021 | Business & Economics
By Victoria Plekhanova Australia and New Zealand are signing up for an international tax on the tech giants — but will it be enough? Australia, New Zealand and many other countries are losing hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue each year by not adequately...
Jul 12, 2021 | Business & Economics
By Denise Montgomery We all know Covid-19 has had a major impact on tourism. Professor Andreas Neef says it’s a good time to have a rethink about the type of tourism the world needs. Professor Andreas Neef admits that sometimes he may depress his students. “But...
Jun 9, 2021 | Business & Economics
Facebook and Google, and other large technology companies, are some of the most powerful companies to ever exist. They touch every aspect of our lives, and decisions made by a few CEOs in Silicon Valley have a bigger impact on billions of people than their own...
Jun 2, 2021 | Business & Economics
By Stefano Riela The Commission is expected to unveil its proposal in a few weeks’ time, but some exporting countries of carbon-intensive products have already expressed their disappointment at a new form of European protectionism. In hands off sovereignty, each...
Apr 15, 2021 | Business & Economics
By Peter Howson Bitcoin isn’t getting greener: four environmental myths about cryptocurrency debunked. The price of bitcoin has reached US$50,000 (£36,095) – another all-time high. It’s hard to believe that 10,000 bitcoin would only buy a couple of pizzas ten years...