Wednesday, 29 April 2020

Even more real-time data

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An economist colleague - oh all right, Kieran Murray of Sapere - sent me through some fascinating near-real-time economic data in Australia...
Friday, 24 April 2020

Getting even more real

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No sooner had I posted about some promising 'dashboards' from Sense Partners and the Treasury , which aim to use a variety of data t...
Saturday, 18 April 2020

Getting real

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We don't have an adequate grasp on the real-time state of the economy. We need much more close-to-real-time data. That's it. The r...
Thursday, 9 April 2020

Go your own way, or else

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Last week the Supreme Court published its Lodge judgement  (media release here ). By way of background the Commerce Commission had taken a r...
Friday, 27 March 2020

Lessons for later

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There will be lots of economic policy lessons from covid-19. One of them, I hope, will be about the coordination of fiscal and monetary poli...
Tuesday, 24 March 2020

Patrolling a fine line

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There is a growing disquiet - particularly in the US, but also elsewhere - that competition policy has got too soft on mergers, and has been...
Wednesday, 11 March 2020

One Rule to bring them all and in the darkness bind them

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"Chatham House rules", said the invite, though as Chatham House itself says, "There is only one Rule", namely When a ...
Monday, 10 February 2020

The ABA goes down under

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Last Thursday's seminar in Sydney run by the American Bar Association's antitrust section was the most successful overseas seminar ...