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Comments on: Why I’m glad to be a forecaster in New Zealand … http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2009/02/26/why-im-glad-to-be-a-forecaster-in-new-zealand/ The Visible Hand in Economics Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:21:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Matt Nolan http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2009/02/26/why-im-glad-to-be-a-forecaster-in-new-zealand/#comment-16639 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:21:27 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=3005#comment-16639 “Maybe you could be in trouble if you stopped commenting on the economy in the UAE. If you weren’t saying something nice or something at all, your silence might be interpreted as an implicit critisism of the economy.”

I’d probably be like those debtors and just get the hang out of the country 😉

]]> By: Matt Nolan http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2009/02/26/why-im-glad-to-be-a-forecaster-in-new-zealand/#comment-16638 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:20:51 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=3005#comment-16638 “I can probably safely assume New Zealand prohibits tobacco advertising, abrogating the right of free speech of business organizations and the individual rights of the agents who run them”

There is free speech and there is misinformation. I support limits on the misinformation that people can throw out – but I’m not a fan of arbitrary pressure on companies not to advertise themselves.

]]> By: Richard http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2009/02/26/why-im-glad-to-be-a-forecaster-in-new-zealand/#comment-16620 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:25:26 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=3005#comment-16620 Maybe you could be in trouble if you stopped commenting on the economy in the UAE. If you weren’t saying something nice or something at all, your silence might be interpreted as an implicit critisism of the economy.

]]> By: Peter Brown http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2009/02/26/why-im-glad-to-be-a-forecaster-in-new-zealand/#comment-16568 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:17:37 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=3005#comment-16568 If you’re like us here in Australia, I can probably safely assume New Zealand prohibits tobacco advertising, abrogating the right of free speech of business organizations and the individual rights of the agents who run them.

Our society takes the approach that it’s okay to abrogate the free speech rights of businessmen, but as soon as they touch intellectuals and the media then it cannot be tolerated.

We may not have free speech rights for having this discussion at some point in the future, and it could be that we could have stopped it if only we didn’t neglect to defend piece-meal restrictions that are already creeping in now in the realms of lobbying and campaign contribution limits especially.

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