Aug 19, 2022 | News, Submissions
Oral submission to the Water Services Entities Bill on Friday the 19 August 2022 Good afternoon and thank you for the opportunity to provide this oral submission. My name is Don Richards and I am the National Spokesperson for Positive Money New Zealand, a...
Aug 16, 2022 | Monetary Financing, News, Opinion
Money creation by the Reserve Bank has been rightly blamed for contributing to our high inflation rate, but this is because the money has gone to the wrong sector of our economy. Through quantitative easing (also known as Large Scale Asset Purchases or LSAP) the...
Jul 10, 2022 | Media Releases, News, Reserve Bank
The Government is spinning a false narrative when it tells the nurses, and the nation, that the nurses’ pay offer is the best they can provide, given the lack of money. “The Government’s bank provided private banks and financial institutions with $55 billion dollars...
Feb 10, 2022 | Media Releases, News, Submissions
The Green Party’s call for an inquiry into the government’s economic response to Covid is welcome, but needs to go a step further, says Positive Money national spokesperson Don Richards. “Rather than a select committee inquiry, the public deserves an...
