Well, they are pretty certain they are better at making your life choices than you are. The list from the Hearld is: Sir Paul Reeves, former Governor-General (convenor). Dame Silvia Cartwright, former Governor-General. Archbishop John Dew, Catholic primate. Professor Sir Mason Durie, Maori health expert. Georgina Earl (Evers-Swindell), rowing gold medallist. Jeanette Fitzsimons, former Green …
Monthly Archive: June 2010
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Jun
24
2010
Labour’s perspective on monetary policy
= Changing rhetoric to win votes. I don’t know whether it makes me laugh or hit my desk angrily – I guess I’ll do both. Listen to this: Labour would broaden the Reserve Bank’s monetary policy targets, adding a requirement to aim for a stable currency, full employment, and the economic prosperity and welfare of …
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Jun
21
2010
All Whites
Sorry I haven’t been posting – been extremely busy, and although I have some ideas I won’t have time to write until next week. On that note though – New Zealand has managed draws against Slovakia and Italy. We beat Paraguay we are, regardless of other results, through to the last 16. Wow – good …
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Jun
10
2010
RBNZ lifts rates for first time in three years
So the OCR went up 25 basis points. Cool, that is nice. It was almost entirely in line with expectations so there isn’t much to say, except: They more explicitly discussed Eric’s concerns regarding the impact of ETS increases into inflation expectations. They put table 5.2 in which talked about “who got what” from tax …
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Jun
09
2010
The taxing issue of burden
One thing I have noticed of late is that many people want to talk about tax cuts in terms of “who gets what”. We see someone with an income of $XXX and say they will get $Y a week from the tax cut. I find this perplexing as I have never seen tax this way. …
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Jun
08
2010
Solving the prisoner’s dilemma
Saturday morning breakfast ceral has an excellent comic regarding the prisoner’s dilemma. Of course, I was bound to appreciate it given my view that Jesus was an early applied economist.
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