No in the title to this post I am not complaining about my lack of height. I am simply discussing the housing market The Worthwhile Canadian Initiative gives an interesting point on housing: We are all born with a short position on housing. This has an interesting implication. Since short positions involve risk and since …
Monthly Archive: July 2009
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Jul
24
2009
From the Hand: BERL on Crampton-Burgess on BERL
Following the incessant blather on the BERL report into the cost of alcohol Ganesh Nana has come out to defend the report (Hat Tip this guy). Why bother? After all we all know that any report on costs will be filled with wild conjecture and pointlessly misrepresented by the public. Well it turns out the …
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Jul
23
2009
Introducing the Hand
As you will have noted all four of the current authours (Matt, Rauparaha, Agnitio, and Goonix) have been running at close to full capacity outside of the blog, and so blog material has been lacking for the last three months. Furthermore, we have barely been able to respond to comments. To help push along blog …
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Jul
23
2009
Careful with this investment now …
So I hear that Wellington’s Morrison & Co’s Public Infrastructure Partnership fund is going to start spending the government’s “$500m infrastructure fund” ($100m of which is arbitrarily from the Super Fund). According to the article they: see significant potential for the fund because of under-investment in the past and because the Government is facing many …
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Jul
23
2009
Has the government been “over-spending”?
The question of whether the government has been over-spending is not one I can actually answer – as there is no way of telling exactly what sized government New Zealand wants. However, looking at how government spending compares to recent history can give us some idea about what is going on. Lets do this in …
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Jul
22
2009
Missing the point on productivity
I hate the “goal” of productivity growth personally. I think any policy goals we have should be based on equity and allocative efficiency, not trying to make arbitrary ratios look pretty. However, I also disagree with Idiot/Savant’s description of productivity and how he feels that a productivity target is anti-worker (h.t. CPW).
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