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Hey hey, We are six today, a full year after we turned five. Help us celebrate by getting drunk and writing inappropriate comments all over the blog. Or even better, offer us some of the exciting guest posts you are hiding in the third draw down on your desk at work – especially if they […]
Hey, I didn’t realise the Institute of Policy Studies was doing their inequality thing today. The outline suggests they are asking good questions – we need to ask about causes before we can really interpert policy! This summary from Bryan Perry from MSD on the data was neat as well – clear and too the […]
I have heard a bunch of criticism of the Spirit Level book based on its “sample” and “cheery picking” (Note: This started life as a typo, but I liked it and used it throughout 😛 ). I’ve decided to ignore that, and to read the book on the merits it gave in the text. Given […]
Via NBR and Agnitio (note behind paywall) I see that Don Brash has decided to attack Auckland Council Chief Economist Geoff Cooper. Usually I ignore economist fights – but when one economist has decided to act like an ideolog and attacks other people to hide it, while the other economist is consistently reporting facts, I […]
I woke up this morning with a headache, and the only thing I could think about was Olympic athletes taking drugs. After all, why do we have such a problem with it. If elite athletes decide to take drugs and do really cool stuff that we can watch in our own homes isn’t this all […]
I see that there is political discussion about loan-to-value ratios. Both National and Labour have repeatedly said the RBNZ needs to do more about financial stability using its tools like LVRs (National signed an agreement with the Bank, Labour said it would bring them in as a tool), the RBNZ turns around and introduces loan-to-value […]