Wednesday, 10 June 2020

It creeps ever closer

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Back in May 2014, our Productivity Commission said that "s36 [of the Commerce Act, which forbids anti-competitive abuse of market power...
Thursday, 14 May 2020

Fiscal policy does its job

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Before this Budget, just about everyone urged Grant Robertson to go for it (including me ). The big initial question was always going to be:...
Wednesday, 13 May 2020

More support in difficult times

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Highlights for me of today's Monetary Policy Statement: The official cash rate will likely be held at 0.25% "until early 2021...
Friday, 8 May 2020

Go big

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Next week we get the double header of a Monetary Policy statement (on Wednesday) and the Budget (on Thursday). Simple message for all involv...
Wednesday, 6 May 2020

Not good enough

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We're about to have the most important Budget in a generation. There's no question that Grant Robertson has inherited one of the mos...
Monday, 4 May 2020

Where are we?

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Perforce, a wide variety of public and private sector organisations have stepped into the breach and done a good job of filling in the long-...
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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...