Economics New Zealand

Leading off with economics, George Mason University professor Tyler Cowen's The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the Ameri...

The government made a decent effort in the Budget to boost the spend on infrastructure, as it showed in this graph, taken from the 'Capi...

What's the very, very first thing you should look for in any Budget? It's not the headline surplus or deficit, no, nor the spend-ups...

We pay too much attention to bad stuff, so here's some good news that has come out of the Commerce Commission's latest annual report...

Today's Monetary Policy Statement wasn't quite what I expected. I thought we'd get something along the lines of, "One qu...

Yesterday I warned you that I was writing a piece for competition policy tragics, and this is it. In the event it's not terribly techni...

By now you're likely reaching saturation point on the NZME/Fairfax merger decision - every newspaper in the country seems to be running ...

...until the release of the blockbuster NZME/Fairfax decision by the Commerce Commission. What'll they do? Bear in mind that any of th...