Monday, 1 February 2021

Good books 2021

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Over the summer holidays we like to blob out and read, and I've caught up with some great titles. In economics, top of the list are two ...
Monday, 21 December 2020

Where is fiscal policy going?

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Last week's Half Year Economic and Fiscal Update, the HYEFU, got the usual coverage: the headline deficit, the debt profile, Treasury...
Friday, 27 November 2020

It can work after all

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At our usual blistering pace - the Fair Trading Amendment Bill was introduced in Parliament 11 months ago, and is still with its Select Comm...
Thursday, 12 November 2020

The Bank's other stuff

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Yesterday's Monetary Policy Statement went entirely as expected - no change to the Official Cash Rate (still 0.25%), no change to the L...
Tuesday, 10 November 2020

More market studies

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We've got more market studies lining up: as Labour announced during the election campaign there will be two new ones, into supermarkets...
Wednesday, 7 October 2020

Theirs and ours

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Yesterday the Aussies had their latest Budget: I won't recap all the details as they're easily available all over the place, and if ...
Wednesday, 23 September 2020

Keep up the stimulus

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Last week I was making the point that one of the key things to look for in the Pre-Election Economic and Fiscal Update or PREFU was whether...
Friday, 18 September 2020

The most important bit

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Every year we get Treasury's economic and fiscal updates - the latest, the Pre-Election Economic and Fiscal Update or PREFU on Wednesda...