Monday, 30 September 2013

Lurking in today's chart pack from Treasury...

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Treasury's latest Monthly Economic Indicators came out today, with media coverage noting in particular how we are, temporarily, growing...
Sunday, 29 September 2013

Some interesting third party perspectives on UFB

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As I've been fossicking around in the general area of the government's telecom policy review, UFB pricing, the debate on the 'co...
Thursday, 26 September 2013

Competition to the rescue - again

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The Reserve Bank issued its  latest quarterly Bulletin today, and it included a chapter  on why inflation has turned out lower - much lower...
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Wednesday, 25 September 2013

How governments rort their own countries' airline passengers

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A while ago I had a go at the protectionist stupidity  of typical bilateral inter-government airline agreements, as instanced on this occasi...
Tuesday, 24 September 2013

A subsidy worth paying?

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Last week Amy Adams, the Minister for Communications and Information Technology, announced  that $15 million was still up for grabs for anyo...
Monday, 23 September 2013

Make some time for this essay

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If you're like me, the disks arrive with the latest issues of the American Economic Review , the Journal of Economic Literature , the Jo...
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Friday, 20 September 2013

Getting more value from consensus forecasts

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Yesterday I posted  a piece  about how business people can squeeze value from the consensus economic forecasts compiled by the NZIER, and al...
Thursday, 19 September 2013

How to mine the consensus view

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The latest consensus forecasts  compiled by the NZ Institute of Economic Research (NZIER), were published this week, and it reminded me that...