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Comments on: The Tiwai industrial subsidy http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2013/08/08/the-tiwai-industrial-subsidy/ The Visible Hand in Economics Fri, 09 Aug 2013 04:00:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: The Tiwai Point Subsidy | The Dismal Science http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2013/08/08/the-tiwai-industrial-subsidy/#comment-41801 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 04:00:16 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=9373#comment-41801 […] Matt and Paul have both covered the subsidy to Rio Tinto that facilitated a new contract between RT and Meridian Power. There is not a lot to say about the actual policy; Matt's "Urg" pretty much sums it up. But a few points about the politics of this are worth noting.  […]

]]> By: Matt Nolan http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2013/08/08/the-tiwai-industrial-subsidy/#comment-41800 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 01:46:00 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=9373#comment-41800 In reply to hamilton.

Industrial intervention is a hard thing for politicians to hold back on sometimes 🙁

]]> By: Matt Nolan http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2013/08/08/the-tiwai-industrial-subsidy/#comment-41799 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 01:45:00 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=9373#comment-41799 In reply to detmackey.

This might be bad, but we’ve done worse – that is an election slogan!

]]> By: hamilton http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2013/08/08/the-tiwai-industrial-subsidy/#comment-41796 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 22:03:00 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=9373#comment-41796 Strongly reminiscent of Muldoon’s intervention – with taxpayers’ money – in the 1977 freezing works disputes.

]]> By: The Tiwai industrial bailout | The Dismal Science http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2013/08/08/the-tiwai-industrial-subsidy/#comment-41795 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 22:00:28 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=9373#comment-41795 […] at the TVHE blog Matt Nolan writes on what he calls The Tiwai industrial subsidy. He points us to two articles from Infometrics that are relevant to the topic:  Tiwai and […]

]]> By: detmackey http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2013/08/08/the-tiwai-industrial-subsidy/#comment-41794 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 21:52:00 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=9373#comment-41794 Alternative spin: at least it’s less than we gave Emirates Team New Zealand.

]]> By: jamesz http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2013/08/08/the-tiwai-industrial-subsidy/#comment-41788 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 13:39:00 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=9373#comment-41788 Not having followed the news in NZ, this reads like a Civilian article: “Government donates $30m to struggling multi-national mining giant Rio Tinto”.

]]> By: Shamubeel Eaqub http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2013/08/08/the-tiwai-industrial-subsidy/#comment-41786 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 07:53:00 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=9373#comment-41786 A subsidy by any other name would smell as bad…

]]> By: Matt Nolan http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2013/08/08/the-tiwai-industrial-subsidy/#comment-41784 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 06:39:00 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=9373#comment-41784 In reply to detmackey.

😀

]]> By: Matt Nolan http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2013/08/08/the-tiwai-industrial-subsidy/#comment-41783 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 06:38:00 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=9373#comment-41783 In reply to VMC.

Politics, bah. Look at how people talk about power prices here:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/9017693/The-backstory-on-Tiwai-Point

WTF, there is no real analysis with these thing, sigh!

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