Friday, 31 July 2015

29th isn't good enough

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This tweet from the World Economic Forum just caught my eye... ...and, as you do, you wonder where New Zealand is. The WEF's arti...
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Wednesday, 29 July 2015

Where has inflation gone?

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I know, I know, the media are already full of coverage of today's speech by Graeme Wheeler, the Governor of the Reserve Bank (short vers...
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Great expectations

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The latest monthly business opinion survey from National Australia Bank had this interesting item. The interesting bit, for me, was th...
Tuesday, 21 July 2015

Monetary policy has turned neutral

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Just a quick update on where overall monetary conditions have got to - if you haven't come across the Monetary Conditions Index before, ...
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Friday, 17 July 2015

If it ain't broke...

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Every general election, we the people get offered proposals to change our monetary policy regime. Some are predictable: "debauch the cu...
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Saturday, 4 July 2015

A cautionary tale

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I've just finished reading The Fall of the Celtic Tiger (Oxford University Press, hardback 2013, paperback 2014), a fine book cowritten...
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Thursday, 2 July 2015

Gini needs friends

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I've been away at the NZ Association of Economists' annual shindig - full conference programme here , with links to abstracts and to...
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...