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So the NZ Herald knows the "full, inside story" about the Pfizer negotiations, does it?
Today the Herald jumped to the government's defense by running an article with the headline, "The Full, Inside Story of NZ's Vaccine...
rmacculloch
Oct 30, 20211 min read
Covid Modeling Forecast Accuracy: An Update
Stuff News ran an article back in March with the headline, "Economic forecasting's spectacular Covid failure". It stated that, "Amid...
rmacculloch
Oct 29, 20211 min read
The For-Profit Education Debate
I wrote an article for the NBR on for-profit education businesses last week. You can read it either here, https://www.nbr.co.nz/node/2318...
rmacculloch
Oct 28, 20214 min read
Down To Earth Strikes Again on QE
In a blog post in August 2020, we raised concerns about the Reserve Bank's Quantitative Easing (QE) Program, which it had just begun to...
rmacculloch
Oct 26, 20211 min read
What a blooper by the Finance Minister
Grant Robertson's 2021 Budget Speech, delivered just a few months ago, contained the following line, telling the workers of NZ how...
rmacculloch
Oct 22, 20211 min read
Price rises are coming to a supermarket near you
The Times in the UK reports that, "The boss of one of the world’s largest consumer goods companies has warned shoppers they face a “once...
rmacculloch
Oct 22, 20211 min read
Why our Health-care system isn't coping: an "inside", "behind-the-scenes", story.
The newspapers are reporting today how our health-care system could easily become quickly overwhelmed should virus cases soar. In...
rmacculloch
Oct 21, 20211 min read
National may gain (some) traction on "rules" and Labour lose (some) traction on excess "discretion"
Back in September we wrote a blog on the "rules vs discretion" policy debate. Proponents of rules-based approaches argue they are...
rmacculloch
Oct 20, 20211 min read
Did the RBNZ's Deputy Governor just make a mistake? Will his White Heron turn into a Black Swan?
In a recent rambling speech given on 21 September, the Deputy Governor of the RBNZ suggested that only small increments in the OCR were...
rmacculloch
Oct 20, 20212 min read
How can a Blog (and Sharon) make better inflation forecasts than 250 RBNZ staffers?
Yesterday inflation rose to a little under 5%, a ten year high. We've long been forecasting sharply increasing inflation & interest...
rmacculloch
Oct 19, 20212 min read
ACT Promotes a Down To Earth Policy
Back in April of this year, we predicted on this Blog that vaccine hesitancy may become a significant issue for NZ in the ensuing months....
rmacculloch
Oct 18, 20211 min read
Was this year's Economics Nobel Prize a Mistake?
The minimum wage debate has been highly controversial in this country, like many others. Especially since our Labour government hiked the...
rmacculloch
Oct 18, 20212 min read
The PM said Medical Experts helped us through Covid. So why aren't they wanted on the Health Board?
It has been announced that Rob Campbell has been appointed as Chair of Health NZ to help chart the future of our health system. He's a...
rmacculloch
Oct 17, 20212 min read
What's the Top Priority on Climate Change? Not what NZ's Green Party would have you believe it is.
An old acquaintance of mine in the UK, Paul Klemperer, who is the world's leading auction theorist, and was the principal designer of...
rmacculloch
Oct 15, 20211 min read
Our Populist Central Bank
One of the primary features of "populism" is a distaste of elites, which often includes academics and intellectuals. On that note, the...
rmacculloch
Oct 13, 20211 min read
Whilst Wellington's vaccine steam-ship wasn't even smoking, it was warp-speed elsewhere
Normally we wouldn't dwell on an issue like our sluggish vaccine roll-out. But it's an ongoing story since our government has gone to...
rmacculloch
Oct 8, 20212 min read
So the Kiwi government doesn't want new vaccines developed to fight new virus variants?
Whilst our nation has bet its future on the Pfizer vaccine to help us move forward with our lives, the PM just delivered a speech at the...
rmacculloch
Oct 7, 20211 min read
Is the RBNZ about to spark a financial crisis?
Today inflation hit a near ten year high and is forecast to go higher still, to above 4%. As a result, the Reserve Bank of NZ hiked the...
rmacculloch
Oct 6, 20212 min read
A Man who Lost an Empire. A Woman who Lost a Nation?
The slide down our "lock-down" levels has led to a most extraordinary & unexpected comparison with the demise of the Soviet Union. Before...
rmacculloch
Oct 5, 20212 min read
Newsroom refutes the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics!?
Newsroom, a media outlet that lists as its "partners" the likes of Bell Gully, Universities of Auckland, Otago and Victoria, is running a...
rmacculloch
Oct 1, 20212 min read
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