Economics New Zealand

Saturday, 29 June 2013

Yesterday's regional GDP data

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Statistics New Zealand has just published the first official regional GDP data, in current prices for the four years to March 2010. Perso...

What's the most intellectual joke you know?

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Tyler Cowen's Marginal Revolution blog has picked up on this theme, originally from Reddit - here's the link .  Here's  an artic...
Thursday, 27 June 2013

Still no credit data?

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Last December, the Reserve Bank made some changes to the statistics it publishes at the back of each Monetary Policy Statement . It rejigged...
Monday, 24 June 2013

A must-read biography

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Charles Moore's Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography; Volume One: Not for Turning is a wonderful book. As other reviewers have n...

The incomparable Economist

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I've been reading The Economist since the late 1950s, when my father used to bring it home from his job with Ireland's Revenue Comm...

Good data, for free, and easily accessible

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In the previous post I quoted some long-run inflation data for New Zealand (the Consumer Price Index in the 25 years to the end of 1989). ...

Inflation expectations

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Enough has already been said about the 'solutions' proposed in a joint Labour/Greens/NZ First/Mana report to solve a manufacturing ...
Sunday, 16 June 2013

Arbitrage

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Been to your local supermarket recently? You'll see signs along the lines of, "You can only buy six cans of infant milk powder...
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