In an article on the Herald Brian Fallow, with the aid of Andrew Coleman, takes on the unaffordable nature of superannuation at present. Essentially the argument boils down to two points: The implied transfer from future generations to current generations is equitable given fair assumptions of technological and population growth. A save as you go […]
Bryan Caplan has another great post up on Econlog. In it he mentions his rule of thumb that “Human heterogeneity is bigger than you think“. I completely agree, and often when we look at other people, or when economists analyse decision making, we rely on the fact that other people share certain attributes with us […]
I suggest sticking the September and December quarters together – and talking about the second half of 2011, including the RWC. A lot of the “upside” surprise in September and the “downside” surprise in December was due to significant variability in stocks – part of which was due to the Rugby World Cup. Adding the […]
In my constant hunt for new data sources, I made my way to the OECD data portal – a great resource. I wanted to check up on some PPP’s for a project I’m doing and I noticed a new series sitting around called “monthly comparative price levels”. It allows you to compare how much you […]
A long time ago my university friends and myself used to use this thing called Myspace as a social network site – before it effectively became a music site. Facebook turned up, and it destroyed Myspace – leading us to crawl over and make Facebook accounts. My guess is this happened because Myspace pages were […]
After saying I thought the general goal of catching other countries was a bit silly I suddenly clicked onto another point – the implied inconsistency of the policies being suggested by Labour. Look, I don’t want to beat up on Labour specifically – as I think all parties are guilty of this – they just […]