Over at Rates Blog they have popped up part 4 of the series on tax I’m popping together. Here are the blog posts linking to part 1, part 2, part 2b, and part 3. I would note this will at least be an eight part series, instead of six now, as I’ve split up this […]
Over on the Herald I saw Bernard Hickey discussing how we have been performing relatively well due to China in recent years (Note, this was also on Rates Blog) – and we have to realise that if something went wrong over there it would hurt us. Fair point, and one that people should be conscious […]
From this entertaining discussion of the Rethinking Macroeconomics II conference comes this gem (ht Economist’s View) 8) Can we realistically solve the “too big to fail” problem? We have to solve it. If we can’t, then nationalize these behemoths and pay the people who run them the same wages as everyone else who work for […]
Brent Layton at the Electricity Authority wrote this piece (or here if that isn’t working) discussing the Labour and Greens power market policy. I don’t know enough to comment on the specifics – outside of a recognition that the benefit to consumers being mentioned is real dodge. All the parties say this sort of rubbish, […]
Simon Wren-Lewis has been discussing some of the ideas about NGDP targeting, and has reached his (tentative) conclusion: My proposal is therefore the adoption of a target path for the level of NGDP that monetary policy can use as a guide to efficiently achieving either the dual mandate, or the inflation target if we are […]
I’m always glad to see people discussing the New Zealand economy with data and discussion. So good on Lowell Manning for doing that here. Of course, this doesn’t mean I have to agree – but I will try to disagree with some substance 😉 There are a number of the specifics I fundamentally disagree with, […]