According to Mansoor Khawaja from Statistics New Zealand, the recent baby boom is the result of: young women … refusing to follow their mothers’ decisions to have few children later in life I don’t know – I might be a bit more cynical and suggest that young women are more likely to have children now […]
Check out Spain (ht Calculated Risk): Just 135 new housing starts in the last quarter of 2008, and not a single one in December: That was the combined output in terms of housing starts for the G-14 group of Spain’s biggest developers Yikes. We are just under about 3,500 – and it looks like we […]
This is from Alex Tabarrok: Mark Thoma makes fun of Judd Gregg for thinking that tax cuts pay for themselves. Mark is right to make fun. What a ridiculous thing to believe. All the good economists know that it is spending increases that more than pay for themselves. 😀 . BTW, this is sarcasm – […]
Thank you for the excellent responses to my previous bleg on refined oil prices. Sadly I am in need of a little more help 🙂 According to the data series kindly provided by John Macilree the price of refined fuel has jumped pretty sharply, even as crude prices have stayed low. I am wondering if […]
Over at Kiwipolitico Anita states that the government will cut spending on government services by at least the same amount that they are going to increase the size of the fiscal stimulus by spending on infrastructure – and implies that this means that the fiscal stimulus is even smaller Now, if the government cuts spending […]
So, where do I get figures on Singapore refined petrol prices? Crude oil has been falling, the exchange rate has stayed stable, but rising refining costs have driven up the retail price of petrol. If anyone knows where I can find the figures it would be much appreciated 😉