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It turns out that if you're rich and are identified as such in an online search, there may be higher chance you'll pay more taxes. This...
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rmacculloch
- Nov 28, 2021
- 2 min
Hey Luxon, the best Covid policy today can turn out to be the worst tomorrow
Beware making public commentary on Covid, even if you're a medical expert, let alone if you're not. My rule is to stick to remarks about...
rmacculloch
- Nov 25, 2021
- 3 min
Shame on Parliament's Finance & Expenditure Committee for its disrespect of Kiwi economists
Many of us in the economics profession have long been questioning the poor qualifications & weak expertise of the Reserve Bank of NZ when...
rmacculloch
- Nov 22, 2021
- 2 min
Bell Gully, Simpson Grierson, Morrison Kent & the rest: Tell NZ what your partners earned last year
Today the controversy over the wage subsidy scheme has blown up (again). The NZ Herald reports that an investigation of "prominent law...
rmacculloch
- Nov 16, 2021
- 4 min
The Unravelling of Labour's Economic Strategy
Below is my column in the NBR today - it's a critique of the government's economic strategy - though in the interests of non-partisanship...
rmacculloch
- Nov 15, 2021
- 2 min
Was Greta Thunburg right? Has the UN Climate Change Conference been "a failure" and "PR exercise"?
The UK Times reports that, "A historic United Nations deal to end the use of coal power was watered down last night after a dramatic...
rmacculloch
- Nov 14, 2021
- 1 min
Why you want to return to the office eventually
This morning I did an interview on Radio NZ with Jim Moira on a range of topics, including "The Great Resignation" and well-being...
rmacculloch
- Nov 13, 2021
- 1 min
The Next Kiwi Election will be a Cost-of-living-election
On Friday I somehow managed to get billed $908.70 by the locksmith company to install a front-door lock in Auckland. Yes, inflation is on...
rmacculloch
- Nov 8, 2021
- 1 min
What one of NZ's best economists has to say on the virus
One of this country's (and the world's) highest ranked economists, Prof. John Gibson at the University of Waikato, has slammed the...
rmacculloch
- Nov 5, 2021
- 2 min
A Solution to Auckland's Summer Holiday Problem?
The news headlines are dominated by the seemingly "impossible" problem of how to let Aucklanders go on their summer holidays, without...
rmacculloch
- Nov 4, 2021
- 2 min
For your Eyes Only: why NZ did "Quantitative Easing"
On March 2020, the Beehive issued a statement, "The Government is backing the Reserve Bank’s latest action to support the economy by...
rmacculloch
- Nov 3, 2021
- 2 min
Now its the RBNZ's turn to spin - and it would make even a Public Relations firm blush
In an astonishing speech to the Real Estate Institute, the RBNZ Governor Orr went through each of the potential causes of house price...
rmacculloch
- Nov 2, 2021
- 3 min
Are Academics Partly to Blame for our Slow Vaccine Roll-out? Could it be a Scandal?
I was never able to understand why more academics, like myself, were not hot on the trail of NZ's snail's pace vaccine roll-out. Isn't...
rmacculloch
- Nov 1, 2021
- 2 min
Who do you believe on the financial stability risks posed by climate change?
John Cochrane, at the Hoover Institute at Stanford University says: "Central banks are rushing headlong into climate policy. This is a...
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