Sounds like the Massey University panel on banking regulation was good times – with Don Brash, David Tripe, and Bevan Graham all largely in agreement. For what it matters I also agree with a lot of what they said 😛 On a side note Brennan McDonald linked to a Radio NZ piece on LVR restrictions […]
The NZ milk powder bans dairy product bans (make that all dairy products for Russia, and milk powder from Australiasia from China), in China and Russia are undeniably a big deal. The most important point is of course that no-one gets hurt – so having the countries ban milk powder until there is information available […]
I don’t like to post on weekends, but I had to point to these asap: Luke Malpass from NZI writing about non-residenti housing purchase bans (see me being too abrasive here – I will be more careful in the future) Seamus Hogan from University of Canterbury and Offsetting Behaviour on Affordable housing – five basic […]
Via Kiwiblog I spotted this: The Government has no qualms about Australian companies shifting jobs to New Zealand because of lower wages. Labour is concerned that New Zealand is becoming a desirable destination for Australian businesses taking advantage of the wage gap. Several big Australian banks and food producers have shifted jobs to New Zealand […]
Give a community fish, and you feed them for a day. Teach a community to fish, and they will overfish the common pool resource. Give someone in the community a property right over the fish, and they will fish sustainably but will be endowed with monopoly rents over fish. So surely you see why I’m […]
Remember the energy policy disucssion (here and here on TVHE) – where the Labour and Greens took a number from the Wolak report to try to justify a single buyer model. Via a reader here is Frank Wolak himself: (More details here) The Labour-Greens’ single buyer electricity policy has a problem. While it remains politically […]