Hi all, For some reason I can’t post anything particularly long at the moment – as the site doesn’t like me. As a result, none of the ideas I have for posts can be satisfactorily placed on the site. I can still comment though – its just taking a while. If you want you can […]
It is interesting to see the real estate blog calling a “turning point” in the housing market. For the sake of completeness, I’m going to attempt to call the opposite – namely I am going to put down the case for why the housing market will continue to remain slow. Note that I am stating […]
Is economics not transparent enough? I ask this question after reading this awesome post from the Freakonomics post (ht Antidismal) (Disclaimer: It is really only awesome if you are into economics 😛 ). Specifically, these two points that are often raised in presentations: 23. The motivation of the agents in this theory is so narrowly […]
Source: Stuff There has been a lot of discussion surround the recent Boobs on Bikes parade in Auckland. Specifically, there is a belief that pornography, which is promoted by this parade, causes violent male crime. This is a bold claim – a claim I know practically nothing about. However, I’m going to try and describe […]
Has anyone else noticed the large swath of BNZ articles turning up around the internet, both on the Rates Blog and on Business Day (they also do more writing on their homepage). It is good – I like seeing economists getting out there and writing things. Anyway, while I was looking through all these articles […]
In the following story on Stuff, we are told that a New Zealand wine maker has sold a whole bunch of wine for $3.50 a litre – an incredibly low price for the premium brand. The reason for these “firesales” of wine we are told is: these big sales come on the back of a […]