Increasingly the Treaty is being used to freeze dry a Stone Age model of Maori society with its denial of both private property rights and meritocracy. That will increase the gaps at a despairing rate. The EU has a current account surplus. Should we combine with the AUD - our PM thinks so. Does a weak NZD point the way to riches - our Deputy PM thinks so.
Cold turkey is best.
But bond and stock performance have become so positively correlated that all that is achieved is lower returns. The furore over the dollar has demonstrated the Finance Minister's lack of courage under fire. But even the arguments he's lobbing over the hapless junior ministerial cannonfodder he's sent forth to face the critics, are blanks. Retreat would be the better part of valour. The dairy industry could be New Zealand's Nokia.