Economics New Zealand

Friday, 31 October 2014

Are we asleep?

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On Wednesday I was passing through Dublin Airport on my way back to New Zealand, when I saw poster ads promising people up to 150,000 euros ...
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Thursday, 23 October 2014

The way we live now

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Today's release of the September quarter Consumer Price Index incorporated the latest three-year review  (pdf) of spending patterns, an...

Good news from charter schools

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Radio New Zealand told me this morning that, according to copies of Education Review Office reports RNZ had been shown, two of the early gro...
Friday, 17 October 2014

Do we need some JOLTS?

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...JOLTS being the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary that the American Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) publishes every month. You can...
Wednesday, 15 October 2014

Three decades later, still bonkers

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Last week the Australian Productivity Commission came out with a couple of reports, on the Aussie dairy trade  (pdf) and on Aussie retailing...
Monday, 13 October 2014

Did we lose the fiscal plot?

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I've been engaged in a bit of tweeting to and fro about the rise in New Zealand's government debt in recent years, and what's be...

Three strikes, and you're - still going....

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In a previous post I mentioned that Australia's Competition Policy Review had put a torpedo into the side of 'national champions...
Thursday, 2 October 2014

No national champions, please

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In earlier posts (main one here , follow-up here ) I've commended the wonderful work done by Australia's Competition Policy Review ....
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