The support for a tax free threshold in New Zealand appears wider than for almost any other policy. The right supports it, the left supports it – then why is it not government policy, and why do I not support it? A tax free threshold at $9,000 would cost approximately $3.5bn (according to Patrick Nolan’s […]
No I’m not talking about the epic adventure that is an economics drinking party – I am talking about the idea of an economics political party. Scott Adams on the Dilbert Blog discusses his idea of an economics political party after becoming irritated at Hillary Clinton. It is well known that I am unsure who […]
Hi everyone, sorry about the delay in writing this post I have had a flu and so have fallen behind in all my work including this. The first order of business is to discuss Thursday’s employment data, something I said I would do on Thursday. However, instead of sticking to the popular indication of what […]
I’m pretty sure that this graph provides the answer: I’ll talk about this a little more later tonight – all in all the size of the fall in employment will have surprised everyone.
This post is more of an open discussion post. I want to know what YOU think about the new Reserve Bank liquidity measures. We know that BNZ, Goldman Sacs, the Press, and fellow bloggers such as the Hive and Mish believe that this (and yesterdays financial market review) illustrates a significant change in stance by […]
Following yesterdays suggestion to lower the speed limit in order to reduce carbon emissions I’ve got to thinking about congestion and carbon. Firstly, I’ll put down the obvious problems with this scheme. Lowering the speed limit will make congestion problems worse – as in the short run cars will be on the road for longer. […]