New Zealand has more information about emerging security threats than ever before, but Cabinet is still too slow to turn warnings into action, a research note released today by The New Zealand Initiative finds. Major General (Ret) John Howard MNZM and Dr Reuben Steff say the problem is speed, not information. Read more
Donald Trump’s second term has given Europe one fight after another. Tariffs, Greenland, Ukraine and Iran have all had their turn. Read more
Our dollar has fallen a lot since 24 August. On 30 September it was down 6% against the US dollar, 3.2% against the Australian dollar and 4.8% against the Reserve Bank's basket of currencies. Read more
Imagining 19th-century schooling might bring to mind characters like Thomas Gradgrind from Charles Dickens' novel Hard Times. Gradgrind was a disciplinarian, obsessed with drilling facts into pupils' resistant brains. Read more
| GDP Quarterly Change: | 1.16% |
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| GDP Annual Change: | 2.23% |
| Inflation: | 3.98% |
| Optimal OCR: | 2.99% |
| Optimal OCR Gap: | 0.24% |
| Forecasted OCR Change: | 0.25% |
