Economics New Zealand

Tuesday, 30 April 2013

The RBNZ's dilemma

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I've been thinking about the Reserve Bank's current predicament, and found the following framework helpful to sort out the issues in...
Monday, 29 April 2013

Recession - what recession?

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This morning, Radio New Zealand's 7.00am News had an item about a Christchurch food bank facing budget cuts, although the operator of th...
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Sunday, 28 April 2013

Pricing for profit

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I've just read an excellent article  in the Sydney Morning Herald about how the promoters of the latest, low attendance, City-Country NR...
Friday, 26 April 2013

A propos of nothing (2)

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One of the fishing books I've read recently is Tony Taylor's Fishing The River Of Time (Text Publishing, 2012) .  It came with good ...

Housing problems - lessons from Ireland (3)

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What caused the Irish housing boom and bust crisis, and could it happen here? The biggest element in the Irish event was a grossly inappro...

A propos of nothing (1)

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I've recently been reading a bunch of fishing books, and it took me back a few years to when my Dad and I used to go to the RDS Library ...
Wednesday, 24 April 2013

Housing problems - lessons from Ireland (2)

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Some people like graphs, others don't relate to them, so here are some anecdotes to back up the previous post's graph of the Irish h...

Housing problems - lessons from Ireland (1)

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Today's OCR review from the RBNZ repeated the Bank's concerns about frothy housing markets in some part of the country. You may well...
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