Either showing a complete misunderstanding about how monetary policy works, or showing that political power is more important than the welfare of New Zealander’s Phil Goff has stated that: Today I am announcing the end of the consensus around the policy targets and tools of the Reserve Bank Ignore him when he says that he […]
New Zealand’s football (soccer if you are from the US) team is playing in their final World Cup qualifier tonight. If they beat Bahrain they reach the World Cup finals for the first time since 1982. Most of the members of TVHE will be going to the game tonight, and all of them will be […]
Bill English says it is now time for New Zealand to begin pulling back from its stimulus measures. The RBNZ also says that they won’t lift rates because they expect fiscal stimulus to be withdrawn. However, I have a question. Other then the cycle way (which will still be constructed) and permanent tax cuts (which […]
Today in the Herald I saw a title “housing fall on the way”. I expected that this would lead me to a report where someone was discussing why they thought the property market would weaken – an argument I would have been interested in reading. Instead I noticed they were discussing this article by Westpac. […]
So says this newspaper story. Does this suggest to anyone else that the price of kittens needs to increase? Why? By setting the equilibrium price we ensure that only those with the highest willingness to pay for a kitten receive a kitten. By increasing the price to its equilibrium level we ensure that we have […]
According to the Employers and Manufacturers Association’s 22% of job types are being done for a lower wage in 2009 then they were in 2008. Furthermore, according to recent labour market data 1% of actual employees have received a pay cut in the past year. At first this seems like a bad thing. Falling wages […]