Thursday, 28 November 2013

An open-minded people

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Statistics New Zealand's Tuesday function on measuring well-being has got quite a bit of coverage - see for example this post  from Matt...
Wednesday, 27 November 2013

Will the Commerce Commission come out with higher broadband prices?

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I'm not a client of Forsyth Barr, and so don't have access to its research reports. All I've got is press coverage (eg here  and...
Tuesday, 26 November 2013

Measuring well-being in New Zealand

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As part of the International Year of Statistics, this morning our own Statistics New Zealand put on a breakfast function in Wellington, ...
Monday, 25 November 2013

Why the Kiwi dollar is so high

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Last Friday John McDermott, the Reserve Bank's Head of Economics, gave a speech,  'Understanding the New Zealand exchange rate' ...
Friday, 22 November 2013

Try this three-question quiz

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Question 1 What happened to income inequality across the OECD between the mid-1990s and 2010? A. Inequality increased B. Inequality staye...

(Off topic) The Dallas motorcade

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There's been any amount of coverage of the Kennedy assassination on this, its 50th anniversary. Some of it has been enlightening, much o...
Wednesday, 20 November 2013

We're doing pretty well, according to the OECD

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The OECD's just released its latest Economic Outlook , which you can read online for free here . We've scrubbed up pretty well. If...

Another good book

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It's taken me a while to catch up with it - I gather it won awards and was on shortlists of best business books of the year when it was ...