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About Matt Nolan
Matt Nolan is a NZ born Sydney based economist. Views expressed here are my own and are unrelated to my organisations.
Email: matt@tvhe.co.nz
I was a bit confused when I heard a claim from Roger J Kerr that September quarter consumer price growth was only going to come in at 0.4%, leaving annual growth in the CPI at around 4%. His justification for the weakening outlook for growth in the CPI was a softening in petrol prices – […]
Following our discussion of one possible value judgment associated with benefit policy I’ve decided to have a crack at another one. Now note that what I say here is not necessarily my opinion – a fact that should be obvious given that it is completely different from my last post. This post will be based […]
I’m feeling sick today, so I won’t be able to write much. As a result, I’m going to link to a good article over at the Rate’s Blog by Bernard Hickey. I agree with his conclusion that the NZ banking system is in good hands – however, it is important to remember that it was […]
Every day I look at the blog and don’t think I will have anything to write about – then I read some of the things that are sold on the political blogs and I find myself writing posts. Frog blog discusses the issues they have with Nationals energy policy (something I gave some early impressions […]
Ok, so the low priced houses that we saw in Detroit were concerning – however, it turns out there is a hell of a lot more of them. How about $1 houses and 182 properties that are listed below $1000 – holy hell (search result here). Lets just say that there must be some investors […]
The NZ Herald has just posted up the points raised by National in its energy strategy, and I have to say, I agree with a lot of it (however, note that I have not read the actual policy document – so this is just a discussion of “the concepts”) There are three main policies: Remove […]