Economics New Zealand

You may have noticed that there is a rather ugly (in my view) effort underway to bring the US Federal Reserve under closer political control...

I wrote a while back about the excellent data the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the US produces on the labour market - what they call the J...

As we all know, the Reserve Bank is in a difficult spot. It can't easily raise rates. It probably doesn't want to anyway, since (a...

The Productivity Commission has just come out this morning with an interesting new Working Paper , "Who benefits from productivity gro...

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...

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...

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

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...