Saturday, 3 January 2015

Fancy a spendup?

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I really like Bill McBride's Calculated Risk  blog, a great guide to what's happening to the US economy. Apart from the obvious cove...
Monday, 22 December 2014

JFDI, MBIE!

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There is a bit of a ruckus going on about the performance of MBIE, the Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment, based on this repor...
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Wednesday, 17 December 2014

Time for an interest rate cut?

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"At 3.5 percent", said last week's Monetary Policy Statement , "the OCR" - the official cash rate - "is still p...
Tuesday, 16 December 2014

Never mind the deficit

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I've just spent the morning, with the rest of the usual journo and economist suspects, in Treasury's lock-up for the Half Yearly Eco...
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Thursday, 11 December 2014

Growth, inflation, and spongey brakes

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Today's Monetary Policy Statement from the Reserve Bank didn't have any headline surprises - the official cash rate was kept at 3.5%...
Monday, 8 December 2014

Let's get more serious about competition

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Australia's Financial System Inquiry, aka the Murray report, came out over the weekend: you can find overviews here or  here  and the t...
Wednesday, 3 December 2014

Move along, folks

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So here's where we've got to with the wholesale price of internet services. Internet service providers (ISPs) used to buy access t...
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Tuesday, 2 December 2014

KISS

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This morning the Commerce Commission released the wholesale price Chorus is allowed to charge to Internet service providers (ISPs), and whi...