Economics New Zealand

Trade wars are top of mind for those interested in the macroeconomic outlook. As our own Reserve Bank said in today's monetary policy re...

What a bestiary Aussie politics is these days - and I don't mean the dogfights over second citizenships, though it would be nice if some...

Statistics NZ's Twitter feed just posted this fun item: It has a link back to a piece that Stats published in 2012, 'Delving i...

Post-election, thoughts have turned - finally - to policy. It's reported in the Herald that among the likely policy initiatives over th...

Last week the Business Council of Australia released a report,  Building Australia's Comparative Advantage , which in turn built on ano...

Yesterday I went through the story of how an Aussie company looked to get protection against imports of tinned peaches and tomatoes, and wa...

When I was looking at the Australian Productivity Commission's reports as background for my previous post , I discovered that somewhere ...

I didn't realise, when I posted some criticism  the other day  of plans to restrict foreign ownership of New Zealand housing, that the N...

There's been quite a lot of media coverage about who said what to whom in the supposed stoush between Hugh Laurie and Immigration New Ze...