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Over at Dim Post, there is the general question of whether a “zero-budget” makes sense. Commenting on the post, I remembered some of the key points to keep in mind when looking at actual policy – rather than the tiresome and incoherent ramblings we will get from politicians of all stripes and colours when the […]
From this news release I can’t make heads or tails of what was really going on in the BERL report on partial asset sales, which is a pity because I would like to read what they put down – and hopefully learn a bit more about what is going on. Does anyone have any idea […]
I’ll be honest here, I don’t watch TV at all – I follow written news feeds while I’m writing and working, and I find that just works more efficiently for me than sitting down and enjoying the spoken prose of someone. However, I’ve noticed in the TVHE twitter feed that people are very upset about […]
Yesterday, Statistics New Zealand released fancy new GDP figures for the New Zealand economy. The new industry classification it uses (ANZSIC06) provides a more consistent, and modern, treatment of different industries in terms of production GDP – and in this sense, it is going to be exciting going through and seeing what this data series […]
There seem to be concerns about the number of New Zealanders permanently heading over to Australia. In the year to March 53,237 people permanently left NZ for Aussie, up 12,331 from March 2011. To put this in perspective Australia accounted for 61% of all permanent departures – and annual departures to other countries were actually […]
Yesterday I received a phone call asking why New Zealand supermarkets offer petrol vouchers with purchases, and whether consumers are really paying for it all anyway! (Update: I’ve been informed that they were actually discussing this on Close Up yesterday, and they were trying to say that for some reason people pay “more” – because […]