Brian Easton

1 week ago | pundit.co.nz | Brian Easton

Monopsonies – dominant purchasers – need to be restrained as much as monopolies – dominant sellers. That is what pay equity is about. This column is not about you-know-who. There are many other political bullies offshore; sometimes there are local ones, as when a politician attacks a group which cannot defend itself or a cabinet minister has a crack at local government.

1 week ago | interest.co.nz | Gareth Vaughan |David Hargreaves |Brian Easton

There was an odd little story over the 2025 Budget, hardly worth relating except that it tells something about budget politics. The original invitations to the lockdown, the meeting which gives a preview of the budget to the media so they can prepare for the release of what is a complicated set of documents.

2 weeks ago | pundit.co.nz | Brian Easton

Perhaps the state of the economy is not as sound as we are being told. There was an odd little story over the 2025 Budget, hardly worth relating except that it tells something about budget politics. The original invitations to the lockdown, the meeting which gives a preview of the budget to the media so they can prepare for the release of what is a complicated set of documents.

2 weeks ago | interest.co.nz | Gareth Vaughan |David Hargreaves |Brian Easton

Robert Prevost, chose the name Leo on becoming the 267th Bishop of Rome – the Pope – in homage to Leo XIII (in office 1878-1903) who issued the 1891 encyclical Rerum novarum or the Rights and Duties of Capital and Labour.

3 weeks ago | pundit.co.nz | Brian Easton

While many of the world’s Christian religions seem preoccupied with personal issues that Jesus, their founder, barely touched upon, they must engage with economic issues too. Robert Prevost, chose the name Leo on becoming the 267th Bishop of Rome – the Pope – in homage to Leo XIII (in office 1878-1903) who issued the 1891 encyclical Rerum novarum or the Rights and Duties of Capital and Labour.