I was about to post a comment on Eric’s blog – but then the comment got long, and I realised I needed a blog post. So here it is. Eric Crampton raises some important points regarding the Reserve Bank’s view on the ETS in New Zealand. Essentially, they are ignoring it – a policy decision […]
In a recent Herald article (found on interest.co.nz, where I find it easier to read straight from the screen) Bernard Hickey discusses the increase in the goods and services tax and savings. The article makes a number of good points, but I do not agree with the conclusion. For my thinking read below 😀
One quick point. Everyone keeps telling me “but in political reality” whenever I say that there are trade-offs being missed in political party discussions. I would like to point out that when an economist does analysis they don’t give two-cents worth of a care to this. When it comes to making a policy it is […]
In an email exchange with fellow economists from around the place I made the following wild conjectures on why fiscal stimulus could be seen as a good idea – but isn’t necessarily first best. Feel free to read and critique 😉
Ok, first off, I’m sorry I haven’t done a post-budget thing for a Green’s alternative budget yet – it will come, I’ve just been really really busy. Second, this talk on the ETS is irritating me. And it isn’t because of the description of what it will do to prices – this is true, the […]
It seems I’ve done over 1000 posts in about 34 months. I must have written a lot of crap – my apologises to everyone that get forced into reading it 😉 I would pick a favourite post, but I can’t remember what I’ve written about. I view the blog as a tool for two things […]