Economics New Zealand

Wednesday, 21 December 2016

How strong is strong?

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The economy's ticking along nicely. Tomorrow's GDP numbers for the September quarter are expected to show an 0.8% increase for the q...
Sunday, 18 December 2016

Good books - December '16

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Surrounded by "isn't it awful", "the world is going to the dogs" types? Here are two antidotes: Nobel laureate Angus...
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Tuesday, 29 November 2016

Quick - before the chance disappears

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Yesterday the OECD updated its Global Economic Outlook : here's what it thinks will happen to the world at large... ...and here...

Good ideas - but now what?

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Yesterday's report from the Productivity Commission , 'Achieving New Zealand's Productivity Potential' (press release here ,...
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Thursday, 10 November 2016

Finally...

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At last. Last month, workers arrived and started to put advertising hoarding up... ...announcing that this former New World superma...

"My work here is done"...

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All as expected from the Reserve Bank today,  the OCR cut to 1.75% and expected to stay there "for a very long time", as its head...
Wednesday, 9 November 2016

An unfortunate coincidence

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Next year will see an unfortunate coincidence of timing. The five year term of Graeme Wheeler as governor of the Reserve Bank, and the assoc...
Friday, 4 November 2016

How will the Aussies' new competition law play out?

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And so to my final write-up of last week's RBB Economics conference in Sydney, the session on "How Australia's competition law...
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