Tuesday, 23 June 2015

A tale of two GDPs

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Last week's lower than expected GDP growth in the March quarter - 0.2% compared with the forecasters' 0.6% pick - understandably got...
Sunday, 14 June 2015

The dollar's down, interest rates are lower. It's all good. Or is it?

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Every now and then I like to go to the fridge and get out the semi-frozen jar at the back that contains what's left of the old Monetary ...
Friday, 12 June 2015

What's happening in the telco sector

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Earlier this week the Commerce Commission came out with its latest Annual Telecommunications Monitoring Report (pdf) , and very interesting ...
Thursday, 11 June 2015

Where are we? Where are we?

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We got a somewhat unexpected interest rate cut from the Reserve Bank this morning - though having been wrong on enough occasions about the m...
Tuesday, 2 June 2015

Pssst! Do you want another US$4 billion?

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Deregulation of the airline industry is one of the success stories of economics from a number of perspectives (as I wrote earlier here ). It...
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Thursday, 28 May 2015

Another good seminar from LEANZ

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Last night we had the latest Auckland seminar from the Law And Economics Association of New Zealand ( LEANZ ): Richard Meade's "Sho...
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Friday, 22 May 2015

Where are the profits?

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Yesterday I wrote up the big themes from the Budget (and a few of the minutiae), but didn't have time to write up one of the more inter...
Thursday, 21 May 2015

Budget 2015 - the big picture

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So here we are again: another year, another Budget - this one's 'A plan that's working' - and another round of sausage rolls...