The National government has given another soft-assurance it would go ahead with soft-compulsion for KiwiSaver, assuming it doesn't all get too hard in the next few years.

Is scientific 'weird stuff' the answer?

Our economy is not structurally sound.

At last we have arrived at the point where the most conservative proponents of market economics admit that the past 30 years has resulted in a serious distortion of our tax regime.

Now the dust has settled on 'Double-Downgrade Day', it's worth looking at what it all means.

On Friday, two of the three main global "credit referees" gave New Zealand its first sovereign ratings downgrades since 1998. The reasons given by both refs were the same.