- 1. Dr Geoff Bertram - How to pay for Covid-19
- (Blog)
- ... Crown balance sheet with relatively low debt that provides fiscal space to increase spending. But it is Covid, not low Crown debt, that has opened up the fiscal space. The mistake is to treat core ...
- Created on 25 May 2020
- 2. Delivering a Green New Deal
- (Blog)
- London-based macro-economist Ann Pettifor is best known as one of the few economists who predicted the 2007-2008 GFC. She also led the Jubilee movement which resulted in billions of debt relief for ...
- Created on 24 September 2016
- 3. Is another Financial Crash Imminent?
- (Lectures)
- ... The financial and banking system continues to be unstable due to the accumulation of debt. Dr Howell described the evidence by such authorities as Martin Wolf of the Financial Times, that the role of ...
- Created on 11 July 2015
- 4. Challenging the single narrative of global economic crisis
- (Latest)
- ... narrative that drives this international project is that of debt crisis and fiscal emergency – it drowns out even the voices of at least four Nobel economists who argue 'growth now, deficit later' (Krugman). ...
- Created on 31 May 2013
- 5. Recent Fabian events
- (Latest)
- ... and regulation; the Mighty River Power sell-off in context' and the second 'Banks, covered bonds and New Zealand's overseas debt: an update'. David Craig spoke on the subject of 'Inequality: the rise of ...
- Created on 06 September 2012
- 6. Steve Keen addresses the New Depression on Hard Talk
- (Latest)
- Address the deepening recesssion by writing off the debt, bankrupting the banks, and nationalising the financial system... Watch Steve Kean on BBC Hard Talk
- Created on 28 November 2011
- 7. The Credit Downgrade and the Banks
- (Fabian Events)
- ... in relation to corporate and sovereign debt, showed that New Zealand's risk profile lay more with private debt owed through the banks than with government debt, warned against the risks underlying the persistent ...
- Created on 09 November 2011
- 8. Geoff Bertram's Presentation Now Availabl
- (Fabian Events)
- The (very detailed) slides for Geoff's presentation 'Bank regulation, exchange rate policy, overseas debt, and asset sales: how to untangle them?' are now available for download. ...
- Created on 17 May 2011
- 9. April 2011 Newsletter
- (Fabian Events)
- ... overseas debt, and asset sales: how to untangle them?” Dr Geoff Bertram, Institute of Policy Studies Connolly Hall, Wellington, 5:30pm Tuesday 31 March “Reconstructing Christchurch” ...
- Created on 19 April 2011
- 10. Issues in Privatisation – Costs & Benefits
- (Fabian Events)
- ... adding approximately $10 billion to New Zealand's international liabilities. Between1990 and 1998 the company's shareholder funds halved to $1.1 billion by when it was heavily in debt. In the decade from ...
- Created on 01 November 2010
- 11. The battle to establish progressive new economies
- (Uncategorised)
- ... succeed, we could get lower interest rates and a less volatile exchange rate. Then, hopefully, we could rebalance the economy away from debt and consumption to investment and earnings, particularly ...
- Created on 09 July 2010
- 12. Heresy Preached in Christchurch
- (Fabian Events)
- Last week's Christchurch Fabian 'Bold Choices' seminar is covered in today's Dom-Post: On a sunny Sunday afternoon in Christchurch about 50 people gather to listen to four men preach what big business ...
- Created on 26 April 2010
- 13. Indie Editorial On Fabians
- (Fabian Events)
- ... 100 or so New Zealand Fabian Society members argue while there is general consensus that our economic future is precarious - our exports too low, our debt too high, and our relative standard of living ...
- Created on 12 March 2010
- 14. Evan Thornley Speech at Launch
- (About)
- ... conservatives. Labor oversaw value-added exports growing 13% compound per annum. It's flat-lined under the conservatives. The conservatives have visited upon us the greatest debt-funded consumption ...
- Created on 09 November 2007
- 15. Michael Hudson - Will the global south break free from dollarized debt?
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- Created on 10 June 2022
- 16. How Winz debt collection arms the ‘war on the poor’
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- Created on 24 April 2019
- 17. Analysis: Debt anchor dragging Labour into PPPs
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- Created on 15 December 2017
- 18. Government Data Matching in Oz
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- Created on 21 June 2017
- 19. After becoming debt slaves millenials get blamed for lousy economy
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- Created on 12 October 2016
- 20. Ann Pettifor in New Zealand on the financialised economy
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- Created on 12 October 2016