Economics New Zealand

Thursday, 29 May 2014

A surprisingly common bad idea

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I try not to read the 'celebrity' gossip that passes for news in some of the trashier media, but even I couldn't quite avoid rea...
Tuesday, 27 May 2014

Catching up with forty years of ignorance

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You know how it is - you nod off during one lecture at college and for the rest of your career you have to go and look up which one is Courn...
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Friday, 23 May 2014

Good news all round. Except when you hear the dial tone

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The Commerce Commission's latest annual monitoring report on the telecommunications markets is a good read (press release here , whole r...
Thursday, 22 May 2014

Why our prices are so high

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Yesterday I posted about some interesting research that Victoria's Norman Gemmell had done on how our tradable and non-tradable prices ...
Wednesday, 21 May 2014

New Zealand's high prices

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Professor Norman Gemmell at Victoria has done some really interesting work on how New Zealand prices compare with those overseas. This has ...
Tuesday, 20 May 2014

There is another property market...

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There's any amount of coverage of the residential property market, but much less of the commercial property market, even though it's...
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Thursday, 15 May 2014

The Budget - a big picture view

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It's Budget day, and here I'm going to be concentrating on some of the more important issues that may not get the coverage they shou...
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Wednesday, 14 May 2014

The key to yesterday's Aussie Budget

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Yesterday's Aussie Budget has naturally had huge media coverage - my favourite (pictured opposite) is this gloriously OTT, but accurat...
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