Thursday, 27 March 2014

Thou shalt consult - Day 2

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Day 2 of Statistics' User Forum was just as good as the first (which I covered yesterday ): here are my personal picks of the day. Co...
Wednesday, 26 March 2014

Thou shalt consult - Day 1

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I spent today at Statistics New Zealand's User Forum in Wellington. I didn't know, until Government Statistician Liz MacPherson men...
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Monday, 24 March 2014

A terrific compendium of social analysis

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I only came across the OECD's Society at a Glance 2014 publication by accident - I was so irritated by a piece of isn't-it-awful h...
Wednesday, 19 March 2014

How productive are we?

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Yesterday Stats came out with the latest productivity statistic s . They're very important numbers: in the long run, it's productivi...
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Tuesday, 18 March 2014

Defensive? Moi?

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I was fossicking around in the work that the Productivity Commission has been doing on regulatory institutions and practices  - and if you w...
Thursday, 13 March 2014

Here's that stubborn home-grown inflation again

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You'll have seen or heard about today's Monetary Policy Statement - the OCR up 0.25% to 2.75% and lots more to come, since "The...
Wednesday, 12 March 2014

"You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment"

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You're probably familiar with Francis Urquhart's catchphrase from the House of Cards / To Play the King / The Final Cut political t...

Papers from the macroeconomics frontier

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I spent last Friday and Saturday at the Southern Workshop in Macroeconomics (SWIM), held at the University of Auckland. It's an event t...