Economics New Zealand

Thursday, 30 March 2017

Nature abhors...

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...well yes, a vacuum. And that's what we've got. Sky TV and Vodafone have been told by the Commerce Commission that their marriag...
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Monday, 27 March 2017

Still stuck

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So here's the state of play. The Commerce Commission can't do "market studies", proactive inquiries into the state of c...
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Friday, 24 March 2017

Take advice? Moi?

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Most years - they skipped 2016 - the OECD comes out with one of its Going For Growth  reports. They're a big thing for the OECD: its Dir...
Thursday, 23 March 2017

Faster by elephant

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Back in the early Nineties I went on a short business visit to Bangkok, which was infamous at the time for its traffic gridlock. Sure enough...
Tuesday, 21 March 2017

Jobs and spin

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Politicians everywhere spin the economic data, and the labour market data in particular. So it's no surprise that the Trump administrati...
Monday, 6 March 2017

Gone but not forgotten

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Remember that court case Spark took last month, to put a delay on the proposed merger between Sky TV and Vodafone? Spark wanted the merger p...
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Friday, 3 March 2017

Slow, slow, slow

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Reading a new biography of Paul Keating , I came across a good example of how the Aussies in recent years are pushing on with reform while w...
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Books for politics junkies

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With our mainstream media generally undercovering our closest geographical and philosophical neighbour, you'll have to educate yourself ...
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