Steve Pierson over at the Standard is criticising National’s stimulus package, and the quality of economic journalism. Now, although I’m always happy to criticise things too I feel that some of his critiques are a bit harsh. I’ll go through the two harshest criticisms below:
Just when I thought that the suggestions from the Job Summit couldn’t get to much worse (given my faith in the current government not to go all Muldoonist on me), some suggestions on the tourism fund have come out. Subsidised airline tickets for travellers from countries such as Britain and the United States are also […]
Kiwiblog appears to be pro the Job Summit – the complete opposite of the position we have taken. However, so far David Farrar has given more detail as to why he feels like he does. As a result, we really need to discuss things a little bit more. Now David mentions the main “potential policies” […]
Source(SMBC) I think economists can relate … (to the first part – not so much the conclusion)
Article: Give an independent body (akin to the RBNZ) the ability to set tax rates Discuss (but preferably read the article first 🙂 )
There is one thing I would like to make clear to people when they read our posts – we are sceptical people. Even so, I like to think we are equally cynical about government and private institutions when we discuss things. On top of that – we often try to put our scepticism to one […]