Economics New Zealand

Wednesday, 6 November 2013

A new state-owned insurance company?

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Let me say two things first, before asking a question about the new state-owned KiwiAssure insurance company that David Cunliffe proposed as...
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Tuesday, 5 November 2013

I'll drink to that

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Last weekend I was browsing  Jancis Robinson's wine column  at the  Financial Times , and discovered two interesting things I hadn't...

And the wholesale price of your internet plan will be...

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Today the Commerce Commission released its final decision on the UBA service (the wholesale cost a would-be internet service provider will h...
Friday, 1 November 2013

Another good LEANZ event

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We've been having a good run with recent LEANZ  events in Auckland, and last night's was no exception: Ed Willis from law firm Webb ...
Wednesday, 30 October 2013

A tale of two cities

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Grant Spencer, Deputy Governor at the Reserve Bank, gave a speech, Trends in the New Zealand housing market , to the Property Council earlie...
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Thursday, 24 October 2013

Leopards and spots, Japanese style

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Here's a potted (though I think fair) summary of the current consensus view on Japan: Prime Minister Abe's got his "three arrow...

The Meridian float - a reality check

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There has of course been the usual political finger-pointing going on since the just-got-it-away Meridian float. There's even some truth...
Tuesday, 22 October 2013

X marks the spot

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A wee while back I posted a graph that Treasury had prepared showing  the link between net migration and house prices . Yesterday we got the...
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