The Lockdown – Day 7 – With Bryan Bruce
When are we going to learn that bailing out big corporations isn’t a good idea? Today Bryan traces the recent history of profit and loss by Air New Zealand and argues we should nationalise it.
Month / March 2020
The Lockdown – Day 6 – With Bryan Bruce
Did you know that some NZ Farmers are being paid millions of dollars by our government NOT to farm in order to preserve two of our largest lakes ? Mike Joy is a freshwater ecologist who used to be a Dairy Farmer. He thinks its […]
The Lockdown – Day 5 – With Bryan Bruce
When times are tough, as they are now, people are more open to sharing and working towards the common good. But once the crisis is over some of us want to put their individual wants ahead of the well-being of everyone in our society. So […]
The Lockdown – Day 4 – With Bryan Bruce
How could we fix our economy and help our kids at the same time. Today Bryan looks back to the Great Depression to see what lessons can be learned to get our economy working after the pandemic is under control. He makes the progressive argument […]
The Lockdown – Day 2 – With Bryan Bruce
Do we really want get back to the old “normal” where a few people got rich at the expense of the many? Bryan says we could use this this unexpected downtime to design a post-pandemic economy which would make New Zealand a much fairer country […]
Latest NZ Ministry Update on Caronavirus / Covid-19
The latest New Zealand Ministry of Health Update on Covid-19.