Well, they are pretty certain they are better at making your life choices than you are. The list from the Hearld is: Sir Paul Reeves, former Governor-General (convenor). Dame Silvia Cartwright, former Governor-General. Archbishop John Dew, Catholic primate. Professor Sir Mason Durie, Maori health expert. Georgina Earl (Evers-Swindell), rowing gold medallist. Jeanette Fitzsimons, former Green […]
Sorry I haven’t been posting – been extremely busy, and although I have some ideas I won’t have time to write until next week. On that note though – New Zealand has managed draws against Slovakia and Italy. We beat Paraguay we are, regardless of other results, through to the last 16. Wow – good […]
So the OCR went up 25 basis points. Cool, that is nice. It was almost entirely in line with expectations so there isn’t much to say, except: They more explicitly discussed Eric’s concerns regarding the impact of ETS increases into inflation expectations. They put table 5.2 in which talked about “who got what” from tax […]
One thing I have noticed of late is that many people want to talk about tax cuts in terms of “who gets what”. We see someone with an income of $XXX and say they will get $Y a week from the tax cut. I find this perplexing as I have never seen tax this way. […]
Saturday morning breakfast ceral has an excellent comic regarding the prisoner’s dilemma. Of course, I was bound to appreciate it given my view that Jesus was an early applied economist.
Apologises in advance for this heavily value ladden post. I am touching on infinitely busy (again), I’m very tired, and I’ve been listening to “too much” Irish music. As a result, I’m posting what is in my head rather than proactively trying to find an economic issue to write “objectively” about – as this is […]